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body works (Hardcover)
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body works (Hardcover)
Series: Brave & Brilliant
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The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and
theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body
may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is
supposed in an abstracted world of pure intellect. The body may be
an obsession, a material concern taken up to the detriment of all
else. The body may be a challenge to overcome, an enemy to
silence.In this book, dennis cooley sympathizes with the body.
These poems celebrate the yearning, laughing, hurting, tender body.
Here, the body is neither a site of conflict nor a place of
spiritual weakness, but instead a vessel of experience that works
in harmony with the intellect. Bodies burble, rejoice, yearn, and
suffer. Bodies grow old, they are injured, they hold strength and
grow weak in unexpected ways. Rejecting the simplicity of
transcendence for a nuanced examination of mortality, time,
illness, of the things the body promises and the promises the body
keeps, cooley is unafraid to challenge the eternal and the certain.
These poems are humorous, intelligent, and poignant. body works is
essential reading for anyone who lives inside a body that lives
within the world.
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