{"product_id":"the-body-is-where-it-all-begins-paperback-3","title":"The body is where it all begins - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcy Rae Henry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcy Rae Henry sings so much more than the body electric; she sings a cuerpo bilingue, a body gone awry amid perimenopause, a body nevertheless moonbright and halfnaked among the sagebrush. Henry peppers the poems of this scintillating chapbook with evocative housings and tangible accoutrements: a golden scarab in Egypt, the telltale signs of downsized childhood (\"dry foods, frozen fruit, \/ packets of vegetable soup\"), the \"pastel art and fake plants\" of a mammogram waiting room. Henry's lyrics bridge English and Spanish like the open-ended promise of a multilingual lifespan, which is to say they are pointed and timely and yield surprising portmanteaus: \"vaccine which is vacuna \/ in Spanish and sounds like a cow in a cradle.\" Her speakers confuse want for want \u003cem\u003e(\"quiero querer \u003c\/em\u003emeans i want to want \/ but could also mean i want to love\") and wound (as in \"tightly\") for wound (as in \"painful\"). They traverse the planet in search of-and escaping from-lovers like time-traveling globetrotters, arriving finally in a tightly composed ekphrasis in response to Dieter Roth's \u003cem\u003eKarnickelk?ttelkarnickel, \u003c\/em\u003ea poem that centers around the reappearance of an ex and the summer solstice in Iceland, where the \"midnight sun stayed in the sky the way a flag stays on the moon.\" Whether luminously celestial or seared into the heart's memory, Marcy Rae Henry reminds us that \"the body is where it all begins.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Diego B?ez, author of\u003cem\u003e Yaguaret? White: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrepare yourself, reader. These are not poems that sit still on the page. No, these poems are dancers-leaping, twisting, roaming, and firmly rooted in the body. Henry's quick-witted and effusive voice jet?'s expertly between English and Spanish; surprising imagery and unexpected allusion; personal narrative and philosophical insight. Whether considering mental health, travel, rabbits, sex, mammographs, relationships, or evolution-this is a poet deeply alive in the absurdity, eroticism, and beauty of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Teresa Dzieglewicz, author of \u003cem\u003eSomething Small of How to See a River\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 58\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730685554995,"sku":"9798348501747","price":23.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/DK1oQ2Rzt19798348501747_b02bf5b2-18f1-4f4c-a25c-df07173a55aa.webp?v=1763841343","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-body-is-where-it-all-begins-paperback-3","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}