Rewriting the Body - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wyatt TownleyTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:10/15/2018Pages:80
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stephen F. Austin University PressISBN-13:9781622882168ISBN-10:1622882164UPC:9781622882168Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SCN9QFPZ0K
The body is a poem we are writing with every breath, says Townley, who in her dual life has taught yoga for decades. Albert Goldbarth calls Rewriting the Body "affectingly emotional even as it's formally risky in a very smart way." Helen Houghton of the Academy says, "I don't know of anything else like this--a profound meditation, exhilarating to read, extraordinarily beautiful." H. L. Hix says, "Her poems don't feel written on the reader's body, they feel written within it."
Excerpt from the title poem
Breath everything is riding on it
under the door winter slides
its white envelope past due past due
as we move from bed to chair
and room to room our lives
sighing in the cedars
strung on backroads to this place
where we go in and out
breath by breath gravel and ice
underfoot Orion overhead
Excerpt from the title poem
Breath everything is riding on it
under the door winter slides
its white envelope past due past due
as we move from bed to chair
and room to room our lives
sighing in the cedars
strung on backroads to this place
where we go in and out
breath by breath gravel and ice
underfoot Orion overhead
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stephen F. Austin University PressISBN-13:9781622882168ISBN-10:1622882164UPC:9781622882168Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SCN9QFPZ0K
WYATT TOWNLEY is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita. Her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR, featured in US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," and published in journals including The Paris Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. Other books of poems include The Breathing Field, Perfectly Normal, and The Afterlives of Trees, a Kansas Notable Book and winner of the Nelson Award.
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
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