We Live in Bodies

“With its clear voice, sexiness, paradoxes, and fiery pulse, Doré Watson’s book will certainly send ripples in the too often monotonously safe lakes of contemporary poetry—and I’m grateful for that. We Live in Bodies is resonant with passion and emotional courage . . . at once irresistibly funny, moving, lighthearted, and grave.” —<em>The Bloomsbury Review</em> “Ellen Watson is an eloquent, passionate poet; generosity of imagination distinguishes both her gift for language and her emotional sympathy: interrogative, tender, wildly inventive, with the wonder of childhood and a grown woman’s comic sense. And her work has the quality of movement. Watson’s poetry is the real thing.” —Robert Pinsky “How well Ellen Doré Watson reminds us that we do, indeed, live in bodies. You will close this book exhilarated by its quirky, passionate poems and grateful for its huge heart fired and fed by a prodigious imagination. This is brilliant, urgent work.” —Thomas Lux

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Alice James Books

Editions

1

Pages

80

ISBN

9781882295128

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