As We Refer to Our Bodies

AS WE REFER TO OUR BODIES

Darren C. Demaree — Poetry / Contemporary Poetry

Book Description

Our bodies, our individual and collective bodies, and the separate bodies that together combine to make our systems — ecological, biological, psychological and technological — these are the bodies that we refer to, these are the bodies that Darren C. Demaree has dance for us on the page. Nuanced or naked, dissected, desecrated and decorated, these are the bodies that rise and swell to the touch of the poet's pen.

In AS WE REFER TO OUR BODIES, Demaree brings his characteristic precision and energy to a meditation on embodiment — what it means to inhabit flesh, to be part of larger systems, to be vulnerable and resilient at once. The poems move between the intimate and the cosmic, finding in the body a site of both wound and wonder.

Author Bio

DARREN C. DEMAREE is the author of numerous poetry collections, including four titles with 8th House Publishing: AS WE REFER TO OUR BODIES, LADY YOU SHOT ME, MANY FULL HANDS APPLAUDING INELEGANTLY, and NUDE MALE WITH ECHO. His poems are characterized by their precision, energy, and ability to find beauty in the smallest of margins. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and he has been widely recognized as one of the most prolific and distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry.

Book Details

Also by This Author

LADY YOU SHOT ME, MANY FULL HANDS APPLAUDING INELEGANTLY, NUDE MALE WITH ECHO (all published by 8th House Publishing)

BUY NOW