The Body Distances (a Hundred Blackbirds Rising)

by Mark Wagenaar

Let no lip, shoulder, hip, go untasted tonight. Let no one be unscathed.
And as you close the door & fold yourself in sleep against another

look for a moment at the empty stretch of dark between heaven
& earth: someone is missing from the world . . .

The Body Distances is filled with long, limber, nimble poems at once ecstatic and elegiac. These poems are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which "the unlikely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342209
• ISBN13: 9781625342201
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher