New poems and translations have recently appeared in The Hudson Review, Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004), and Revenge and Forgiveness (Henry Holt, 2004), among other places.
Echolocations was chosen
as the April 2004 selection for the Sherman Alexie Poetry Book Club.
There was an on-line discussion about the book in April 2004. Link
to the book club.
F. D. Reeve, Poetry
magazine (Vol. CLXVIII, No. 3, June 2001)
Skill
at distancing - moving from a simple, involved moment to a wry, repositioned
overview, thereby allowing the emotional experience to endure in the language
and to be available to every reader - is evident throughout the book...
American tradition lives.
And it throbs and pulses in the final poem, "Echolocations," based on conceiving
a whale skeleton on a beach as a house into another world, a vehicle along
the whale's way itself, the instrument of the sea's singing and of singing
to the sea...(read more)
R. S. Gwynn, The Hudson Review (Vol. LIV, No. 2, Summer 2001)
In
the space I have remaining, I want to call attention to two first books
which demonstrate both considerable ability and promise of good things
to come. Diane Thiel's Echolocations is the winner of the
thirteenth annual Nicholas Roerich Prize... (read
more)
Ann K. Van Buren, Library Journal
Recommended
for general collections:
Thiel disperses the silence
of those who were the oppressors and takes responsibility for the wrongs
into the present. Miraculously, the poems do not plunge into utter despair.
In fact, it is the re-hearing which brings redemption...