{"product_id":"the-body-a-tree-paperback","title":"The Body, A Tree - 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\u003eAmy MacLennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLana Hechtman Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Selected by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Opening in the aftermath of a breakup, this book moves through an entire calendar year of grief and recovery before closing with poems so sensuous and raw that it is possible to believe love's pleasure is not merely worth but is also somehow deepened by its pain. At the book's heart is the body that loves another body, suffers its absence, and lives to love again. In the last poem, the speaker lies in bed with a new lover, composing a cable that reads: 'one of us will leave\/I will remember my body \/ ached for you like no other stop.' That \"stop\" ends the telegram and the book but is also a command to banish worry and allow the speaker to, as she has in all these deeply felt and sparely written poems, live in the tender, stung moment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Rebecca Foust, author of \u003cem\u003eParadise Drive\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Press 53 Prize for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Somewhere in a great library of the heart, beyond Fan Fiction for Young Comets, near the Biographies of Old Oaks, between Desire 101 and AP Capture is Amy MacLennan's \u003cem\u003eThe Body, A Tree\u003c\/em\u003e. Look for a space where a book is missing. If it hasn't been checked out, then it's escaped on its own. It is unshelvable. You can hear it, reading itself aloud: 'Allow brevity' it says. 'Allow sweetness. Allow smudged ink.' With her first full-length collection, MacLennan has conjured poetry of gentle authority, at once bold and vulnerable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Brendan Constantine, author of\u003cem\u003e Calamity Joe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Taut with precision and economy, lush with the music of Eros, \u003cem\u003eThe Body, A Tree\u003c\/em\u003e gives us remarkable poems \u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e the body--sensual, strikingly sensate, fully \u003cem\u003eembodied\u003c\/em\u003e. With Amy MacLennan's innovative diction and memorable imagery, even the weather--that talk-worn topic--becomes newly alive. A summer afternoon storm is '...a hurly-burly jig shaking its way\/ across the valley floor--fuss, heavage, \/ blinks and streaks, low bellowed tone...\" This whole book is a marvelous storm of lust and longing, anticipation and satiation. Reading these poems, I'm both immensely satisfied and pell-mell avid to read them again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46294652289221,"sku":"9781936657223","price":23.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/y60J4yVS-h9781936657223.webp?v=1780260845","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-body-a-tree-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}