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    612-822-4611

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This Earth, This Body

This Earth, This Body

Distler, Arlene Iris

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639801677
ISBN13: 9781639801671
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 5 2022
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We are not this flesh we call ourselves.../this seeming solid self only the sounding bell.//Yet the world's beauty is ours/to bear, and the austere does not call. Exactly. Again and again in this stirring collection, Arlene Distler limns the transitory, even illusory nature of human experience, its joys and griefs; yet with a winning stubbornness, she treasures that experience and manages both to meet and to transcend its challenges. Consider her moving testimony to a friend who shares with the poet certain painful recalls of girlhood: We did not cauterize the wounds/but defied them like those fire-eaters who swallow flame/ but are not burned by it. Again, exactly. That defiance, often exuberant, makes of This Earth, This Body an exemplum for human resilience.

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