Wisdom of the Body
A lyric collection that links bodily feeling, the salmon cycle, and the passage of time.
Work Information
It turns the body itself into a site of thought.
Through bodily change, salmon migrations, and the cycles of plants and land, the poems explore deep layers of experience and perception. The short pieces open into a meditative breadth.
Review Summaries
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Readers praise the quiet, sustained strength that comes from linking the body with the natural world.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Black Heron Pr
- Published
- 2007-03-30
- Pages
- 94 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.5 x 0.76 x 21.46 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780930773816
- ISBN-10
- 0930773810
- Price
- 5881 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Wisdom of the Body is a meditation in poetry on the bodiness,-the physicality-of all things: our bodies and how they change, the salmon and their life cycle, trees, flowers, the earth, everything caught in the mystery of time. The book contains a series of poems on the life cycle of Pacific Northwest salmon that was a City of Seattle public arts project, and poems from the libretto of a musical piece by noted composer Janice Gitech, Navigating the Light.
All Fire All Water is Judith Roche’s fourth poetry collection. Her third, Wisdom of the Body, won an American Book Award. She has published widely in various journals and magazines, and has poems installed on several public art projects in the Seattle area. She edited First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim , which also won an American Book Award. She has conducted workshops around the United States and has taught at several universities. She currently teaches at Richard Hugo House Literary Center. She is a Fellow in the Black Earth Institute, a progressive think tank exploring the links between nature, spirit, and social justice.