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-Harold Schweizer, author of On Waiting and On Lingering and Literature
It would take a poet of Glen Mazis' immense sensibility to understand that the water
in our bodies came from collisions between the Earth and a vast array of comets millions
of years ago, and that even now, traveling 6000 miles an hour around the sun, we are
balanced on tectonic plates that are floating on lava as we surf through the universe.
These poems have that same gravitational pull and know that the "abandoned hives"
of the earth's many bodies are where "the earth's creatures lie." These poems are filled
with tender, unflinching, hard-won moments, and they rub their legs against the edifice
of our ruins. But they do more than that. They are woven with notes of hopefulness and
build bridges into the landscapes of our shared interior lives, our tribal DNA. It is no
coincidence that the human body and the Earth's skin are both composed of the same ratio
of water, and this tight, resonant collection is filled with lines that ebb and flow like the tides, folding their themes over into the reader's taut subconscious and foaming with quiet surprises over and over. "A mother is the curve of the earth," he writes, "a steady hold on who we are." Mazis knows that History is filled with astonishments, like the ninth configuration of protein molecules that caused the first life on the planet to bubble forth. The poems in Bodies of Time and Space are like a toy car, pull them into your body and they leap forward twice as far.
-Keith Flynn, author of The Skin of Meaning and editor of The Asheville Poetry Review
Author: Glen a. Mazis
ISBN-10: 1639801952
ISBN-13: 9781639801954
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2022
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
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