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O Body of Bliss

O Body of Bliss

Certo, Janine

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 173439854X
ISBN13: 9781734398540
Publisher: Longleaf Press
Published: Dec 19 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection is so damn good I want to quote from every exploration inside every poem: food, family, love, tragedy, humor, religion and death, Certo's O Body of Bliss possesses an incisive immediacy, replete with surprises, that grabs and won't let go: Who wasn't shoved in a room by Boy Who Would Grow Up/To Be Rapist, his hands at work while her friends picked the lock? Storyteller and lyric poet all in one, in Ode to the Airbnb, she asks: isn't it/ sacred to be someone else, stepping over/ the threshold into their skin, into the history/ of closets, into the wall spaces between framed/ photos bound in their hall light, their wanderings/ and absences, their quilts and smells, the lives/ of the hearth and the lock on the storage room. The range of her conjuring coupled with her linguistic gifts leave me awestruck.

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