Poetry. For those who love Superman and Wonder Woman--and who enjoy diving deep into the mythological history of superheroes, considering the ways that they both experience and reflect the best and worst our human condition--comes this double collection of poems, SINGLE BOUND. The first book in Bryan D. Dietrich's collection, Krypton Nights, won the prestigious Paris Review Prize in Poetry in 2001, and it receives a fresh treatment here. The second book, Amazon Days, makes its debut at a moment when women's identities and experiences are at the forefront of cultural conversation. These two superheroes, speaking within this combined collection of formal persona poems, have much to say to each other and to all of us. "Bryan Dietrich is my favorite mystic. I'd say theologian, but Dietrich's relationship to the divine is more medium than scholar. He invites it all in: the ancient and numinous, the postmodern and spandex clad. Then, like the ecstatic Theresa, the man-woman-man Tiresias, he speaks: earthy, oracular, earnest. Super. Wonder. Wow."--Marta Ferguson "The biggest struggles don't come in tights. This is the crux of Bryan Dietrich's SINGLE BOUND. Dietrich uses a masterful combination of forms and personas to offer a multifaceted and multidimensional examination of the two most important American superheroes. But, just like the best superhero stories aren't only about superheroes, this collection is not only about Superman and Wonder Woman. It is not only about Clark Kent and Diana Prince. Humanity sits at the core of SINGLE BOUND. In his depiction of these fictional saviors, Dietrich makes us question why humanity wants a savior and, most importantly, why humanity deserves to be saved."--Jason McCall

Single Bound: Krypton Nights / Amazon Days

Literature & Fiction

Dietrich, Bryan D.

Poetry

WordFarm

Prime Directive

Genre Fiction

Needfire Poetry

The Monstrance

Krypton Nights, Bryan Dietrich's first volume of poetry, is the year 2001 winner of the Paris Review Prize in Poetry. The simplest thing to say about Krypton Nights is that almost every poem within concerns the DC Comics comic book character Superman. The result is priceless. Sometimes funny and often heartbreaking, these poems are anything but trite. Each is a careful construction and serious meditation on our 21st century reality, how we feel and who we are. This book's indulgence in pop culture recalls Dietrich's fellow Kansan Albert Goldbarth, and, like Goldbarth, Dietrich is a stunning poet who is poised to reveal to us our own identity, as quirky or quacky as that may be.

Krypton Nights: Poems (Paris Review Prize in Poetry)

Zoo Press

UNIVERSAL MONSTERS, Bryan Dietrich's newest book, is much more personal than his first, the award-winning KRYPTON NIGHTS. From boudoir to abattoir, from desire to dissolution to divorce, from THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN to ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT WOMAN, this is a book that engages monsters, yes, but also the everyday human traumas that rend.

Universal Monsters

Word Poetry

The Monstrance, Bryan D. Dietrich's sixth book of poems, is a love story. Set in the world of James Whale's 1931 film version of Frankenstein, these poems document the lives and loves of a monster and a gypsy, a huffy hunchback, a lame priest, and the not-so-mad scientist himself. What begins with test tubes and Tesla coils ends in grace and graveyard picnics. Heartwarming and horrifying, love itself is resurrected here and set striding, a lost creature, livid and longing, but never alone.

Dark Recesses Press

THE DEMETER DIARIES

Simon, Marge

Independent Legions Publishing

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