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What Bodies Have I Moved
In What Bodies Have I Moved, Dingman peoples diaspora, brings family history into exile, transmutation and the western current of Eastern Europe.
- GenresPoetry
27 pages, Chapbook
First published May 1, 2018
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July 12, 2018
Chelsea Dingman’s What Bodies Have I Moved is a book of foreground and footprint for which you’ll need both hands. In it, people are place, and voice a narrator of excavations undertaken to identify the carrier of the chalk. What alarm does one set for stillness? It is in this interrupted dream of a history, a history that doesn’t repeat itself so much as stutter the unspeakable, that Dingman is able to unearth the out-of-body. The past is childless. The present a map of our preconceived notions of ruin. As in Thaw, Dingman’s previous collection, the words here have a way with absence that, for the reader, bring landscape home.
August 28, 2020
Beautiful and masterful poems.
September 6, 2021
“I lean into the snow, wanting/to be lost again. To know that kind of violence”
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