Holy the Body
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800827
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John Lawrence Nazareth
Holy the Body is Dr. Arthur Ginsberg's declaration of love for our frail humanity: each body part / handled like a reliquary. His evocative descriptions blend a physician's grounding in science with deep reverence for the miracle of life: Peering through the thousand-power lens / I wander through a colony of white blood cells, / track their spiny membranes through rivers / meandering to every part of the kingdom. Dr. Ginsberg invites us to stand with him by his patient's bedside and make ourselves vulnerable to their life and to their death in equal measure: drinking in the puckered, red faces / inhaling life, the bubbles on tiny lips, and Then, the letting go, his jaw unclenching / like a clamshell, into a prophetic smile. His poems are a powerful reminder of a physician's duty to care: I must go back to the man dying / in white linen, and say nothing more / than the warmth of my hands on his. Holy the Body is an urgently necessary collection of poems in an era where bureaucratic, mechanized medicine lays siege to our humanity: the world is strangling in ink / and paper, that neon patterns on oscilloscopes / are something we have invented to detach us / from matters of the heart.
Ruth Kohen
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