We Live in Bodies
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1882295129 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said She speaks to the soul with words that are electric!. The words speak directly to your soul regardless of gender - even though it's power for women is quite evident. A MASTERPIECE! A Customer Great book wonderful words
This is brilliant, urgent work."—Thomas Lux. "You will close this book exhilarated by its quirky, passionate poems and grateful for its huge heart fired and fed by a prodigious imagination
With dazzling turns of phrase, her poems embody a speaker who, caught in the convulsive futility of grief, attempts to preserve at least the memory of what she's lost, in this case, a miscarried fetus: "after you became a matter of blessed fact, a euphoric / knot of nausea I sat hugging, grinning my goofy / we beat the odds grin to have you dead in there." Like Larry Rivers with his painting for the book's cover, Me in a Rectangle, Watson both laments and celebrates the spirit housed in the body, trapped within walls, or made manifest by shape and form. "We live in bodies clumsy and disobedient," the book's title poem declares, "and we love them even as we punish with too much or too little." In poem after poem in We Live in Bodies, "words hover fleshless in vowels and consonants" and, despite the persistence of bodily loss and suffering, bid us to drink from the "cup of having to go on." -- Marcus Cafaga, Ploughshares, Spring 1998"Ellen Watson is an eloquent, passionate poet;