Probing, wide-ranging, brimming with passion and outrage, Melhem's eighth collection of poems grips the reader with accounts of individual triumphs and the ongoing catastrophic conflicts of our world. The author draws on her years as a painter and sculptor to bring a distinct visual and lactile quality to her poetry. In this volume, Melhem proceeds from robust individual portraits through observable terrains to traumatic visions of war. "Certain Personae" ranges from black writers to Abraham Lincoln, from a portrait of the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the poetry of John Updike, and finishes with paintings of Hannibal crossing the Alps. In "Mostly Political", the poems traverse the local and the universal: melting polar ice caps, capitalism, a painting by Max Ernst interpreted in antithelical ways, and a poem surveying Manhattan's Upper West Side in the context of international events. "Wars", the third and last section, gives intimate and searing glimpses of the Trojan War, World War I, the Gulf War, the Iraq war, and the conflict over Palestine.
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Belying all of prior literary history, a currently fashionable critical dictum holds that any poetry engaging the real world is necessarily impure and unworthy of respect or admiration. D. H. Melhem's powerful Art and Politics / Politics and Art kicks down the door of that comfy salon and lets in the fresh air of heroism, of racial equality, of courageous feminism, of social conscience, of pacifism. --Philip Appleman, author of New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996
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D. H. Melhem has won an American Book Award and the RAWI Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times She is the author of seven books of poetry, a trilogy of novels, and three nonfiction books. New York Poems, Blight, and Stigma & the Cave are all available from Syracuse University Press.
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The world of art and politics have a unique history with one another,
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The world of art and politics have a unique history with one another. "Art and Politics, Politics and Art" is a collection of poetry form D. H. Melhem as she presents a unique collection of poetry focusing on this history, presenting many new perspectives and thoughts on these events. "Art and Politics, Politics and Art" is a thoughtful and entertaining read, highly recommended. "Email Surveillance": hops/on my shoulder/looks over it/swims through my gaze/waves from computer screen/floats/on my surfride/dives/into my hard drive.
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