Flashes & Specks by Diane R. Wiener

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Lyric poetry is unlike its attraction to like. It proposes analogies but breaks the strings. Diane Wiener‘s poems build for and then against the like to like dichotomies of custom. There’s no one like her writing today.
–Stephen Kuusisto 
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Reading Diane Wiener‘s chapbook, one can smell marine air, see birds flying, and feel the reach of trees as they sing and talk. We experience a poet’s “cyclical nonlinear mythical time” with awe at living among each other and nature. Readers will want to return to her sieve of words to savor the love, dreams, and hope these poems catch.
–Clark A. Pomerleau
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Diane Wiener‘s Flashes & Specks is a book of wit, intelligence and heart. This is a poet who is not afraid to call out absurdity when she sees it—who occupies the metaphysical plane with ease, but is also so keenly attuned to how nature speaks to us and through us and shares in our love and grief. Wiener’s poems draw us into the essential questions of our lives: “why that car was crushed/but not this one/why the sea star teemed/why the angle of light.”  Buy this book; your life will be the richer for it. –
–Sheila Black 
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Flashes & Specks

by Diane R. Wiener

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-516-1

2021

Diane R. Wiener is the author of the poetry collection, The Golem Verses (Nine Mile Press, 2018). Diane’s poems appear in Nine Mile Literary Magazine, Wordgathering, Tammy, Queerly, The South Carolina Review, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, Diagrams Sketched on the Wind, Jason’s Connection, and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction appears in Stone Canoe, Mollyhouse, and The Abstract Elephant Magazine; flash fiction appears in Ordinary Madness. After serving as Guest Editor for Nine Mile Literary Magazine‘s Special Double Issue on Neurodivergent, Disability, Deaf, Mad, and Crip poetics (Fall 2019), Diane was appointed Assistant Editor. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. You can visit Diane online at: https://dianerwiener.com/.

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1 review for Flashes & Specks by Diane R. Wiener

  1. Michael Northen –

    Review in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature
    https://wordgathering.com/vol15/issue2/reviews/wiener/

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