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"You will close this book exhilarated by its quirky, passionate poems and grateful for its huge heart fired and fed by a prodigious imagination. This is brilliant, urgent work."—Thomas Lux ** Review "Ellen Dore Watson writes a poetry of elegy. The poems in her first book, We Live in Bodies, seek consolation for all the losses that diminish the human body, the loss of life, the trauma of violence, even the slow degeneration brought on by age. 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. With an unabashed sense of verve and humor ("Love even forbidden love doesn't deserve linoleum"), these poems struggle against the lassitude and consequence of loss and refuse to accept old-age

Author

Ellen Doré Watson

Publisher

Alice James Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781882295128

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities