Body Distances
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body-centered poetic imagery
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contemplative modern poems
contemporary American lyric poetry
contemporary elegy in poetry
contemporary lyrical voice
contemporary odes to desire
ecstatic elegy collection
ecstatic language in contemporary verse
ecstatic mourning poems
elegiac modern voice
elegiac reflections in poetry
elegiac yet celebratory verse
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explorations of grief in poetry
intimate portrait in verse
limber and lyrical poetic style
lyric exploration of mortality
lyric poems about intimacy
lyrical celebration of the body
lyrical examinations of closeness and distance
lyrical exploration of memory
lyrical rapture and mourning
lyrical search for transcendence
meditations on mortality and touch
meditative verse on the human condition
modern elegiac verse
modern intimate elegies
modern poetry of tenderness
nimble explorations of intimacy
poems of longing and absence
poems on physicality and presence
poems that sanctify the everyday
poetic meditation on intimacy
poetic odes of intimacy
poetic treatment of desire
poetry of presence and absence
poetry on transcendence and loss
poetry rooted in sensual detail
poetry that bridges love and mortality
reflections on connection in verse
reflections on love and loss in verse
sensual metaphors in poetry
sensual poetics of the everyday
verse imbued with longing
verse on longing and connection
Product details
- ISBN 9781625342201
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 177 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2016
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 continues / to dovetail with the present.”
Mark Wagenaar is a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas in Denton. He is the 2014 winner of the Pinch Poetry Award, the New Letters Poetry Prize, and the Mary C. Mohr Poetry Prize, as well as the 2013 winner of the James Wright Poetry Prize, the Poetry International Prize, and the Yellowwood Poetry Prize. Wagenaar served as the University of Mississippi’s 2014 Summer Poet in Residence. His debut manuscript, Voodoo Inverso, was the 2012 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize. His poems have been published or accepted by the New Yorker, 32 Poems, Field, Image, Subtropics, Ninth Letter, Washington Square, Shenandoah, and the Missouri Review.
