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The Certain Body

The Certain Body

Guez, Julia

Paperback

Series: Stahlecker Selections

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1954245300
ISBN13: 9781954245303
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Sep 15 2022
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
In the long limbo of post-viral syndrome, Julia Guez aptly frames the recursive paralysis of pandemic rhetoric, whose seeming transitions always arrive at the same uncertainty: and then what / and then / what, what / then. The Certain Body captures life with illness-how the body moves through disease and rests in the liminal space of otherness. Following the speaker through a harrowing and disorienting SARS-Cov-2 infection, readers witness the poet's gradual refortification as Guez traverses all facets of sickness: its mercies, its pleasures, its gratitudes, its reliefs, its gorgeousnesses. Probing, sharp poems centering an awareness of human ephemerality answer the words of Viktor Shklovsky: And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. In If Indeed I Am Ill, Guez writes, These sonatas, these scores, tell me / what of them will last when everything falls away- Through these lyric expressions, Guez shows us not just how art can heal but how healing is art, a modality of acceptance, the meaning in the process, a mosaic of imperfections that creates and embraces what is.

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