In the Body of Our Lives

Type

Book

Authors

Jeanne Wagner

ISBN 10

0981981631

ISBN 13

9780981981635

Tags

Poetry, Literature

Description

Poetry. IN THE BODY OF OUR LIVES, Jeanne Wagner's second full-length collection of poems, looks back on a Cold War-era childhood and its effect on the construction of a self. Refusing both sentimentality and censure, the poet shines an unflinching light on a home characterized by alienation, stringent Catholicism, shadowy alcoholism, and the inescapable attitudes and historic events of the 1950s. We proceed by images—the stitching up of Frankenstein's monster, cups wobbling on a dinner table, a child's desire to wear her clothing inside out—until we realize that it is a life that is being crafted. With intelligence and vivid language, Wagner writes of the body as a perpetual stranger, yet, illuminated by subtly shifting qualities of light, the body remains a home, the housing of life itself. - from Amzon

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