Body, in Good Light

Download or read book Body, in Good Light written by Erin Rodoni and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first section of Body, in Good Light opens with the words, "Between any two points, there is a love story": points on a compass, points in time, between lovers and strangers, mother and child. Throughoutthis debut collection, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence, rendered in language that is fierce, tender, penetrating in its precision, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing "turncoat cells" of cancer, the half-smile scar of a caesarian, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire, Rodoni's poems remind us how tenuous our lives are, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth.