THE BODY KEEPS SCORE: THREE POETS ON SCARS, SENSUALITY & SELFHOOD

In Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, KATIE FARRIS questions and praises the body even as it deteriorates in a gut-wrenching battle with cancer, affirming sensuality despite physical scars. JANINE JOSEPH’s Decade of the Brain: Poems articulates the strangeness of living in relation to other past and simultaneous selves changed by injury, intimacy, notions of citizenship, and nation. BRIAN TURNER’s unique trilogy – The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Goodbye World Poem, and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook – offers a cosmic dimension to the tensions of war and survival alongside bereavement in the aftermath of the death of his wife, illuminating that anguish so that we may learn, survive, even flourish in its wake.

Buy Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. – Farris

Buy Decade of the Brain: Poems. – Joseph

Buy The Wild Delight of Wild Things. – Turner

Buy The Goodbye World Poem. – Turner

Buy The Dead Peasant’s Handbook. – Turner