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Article: Diane Thiel, Resistance Fantasies.(Horses and the Human Soul)(Dog Angel )(Book Review)
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- December 22, 2005
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Diane Thiel, Resistance Fantasies, Story Line Press Judith Barrington, Horses and the Human Soul, Story Line Press Jesse Lee Kercheval, Dog Angel, University of Pittsburgh Press
Graceful, intelligent, accessible, the poems in Resistance Fantasies move across centuries--stopping in on Catherine the Great in the 1700s, Greek women in 1803, and a family in Odessa in 1943, just to name a few--and geographies, including Russia, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Miami Beach. They explore myth and personal story, legends and contemporary public issues. They allude to or speak many tongues: Greek, German, and Spanish among them. Yet as diverse as this collection is, the poems in ...