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The body is where it all begins

The body is where it all begins

Henry, Marcy Rae

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 196394318X
ISBN13: 9781963943184
Publisher: Querencia Press, LLC
Published: Mar 14 2025
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English

Marcy Rae Henry sings so much more than the body electric; she sings a cuerpo bilingue, a body gone awry amid perimenopause, a body nevertheless moonbright and halfnaked among the sagebrush. Henry peppers the poems of this scintillating chapbook with evocative housings and tangible accoutrements: a golden scarab in Egypt, the telltale signs of downsized childhood (dry foods, frozen fruit, / packets of vegetable soup), the pastel art and fake plants of a mammogram waiting room. Henry's lyrics bridge English and Spanish like the open-ended promise of a multilingual lifespan, which is to say they are pointed and timely and yield surprising portmanteaus: vaccine which is vacuna / in Spanish and sounds like a cow in a cradle. Her speakers confuse want for want (quiero querer means i want to want / but could also mean i want to love) and wound (as in tightly) for wound (as in painful). They traverse the planet in search of-and escaping from-lovers like time-traveling globetrotters, arriving finally in a tightly composed ekphrasis in response to Dieter Roth's Karnickelköttelkarnickel, a poem that centers around the reappearance of an ex and the summer solstice in Iceland, where the midnight sun stayed in the sky the way a flag stays on the moon. Whether luminously celestial or seared into the heart's memory, Marcy Rae Henry reminds us that the body is where it all begins.

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