{"product_id":"the-certain-body-julia-guez-9781954245303","title":"The Certain Body","description":"In the long limbo of post-viral syndrome, Julia Guez aptly frames the recursive paralysis of pandemic rhetoric, whose seeming transitions always arrive at the same uncertainty: \"and then what \/ and then \/ what, what \/ then.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Certain Body\u003c\/i\u003e captures life with illness-how the body moves through disease and rests in the liminal space of otherness. Following the speaker through a harrowing and disorienting SARS-Cov-2 infection, readers witness the poet's gradual refortification as Guez traverses all facets of sickness: its mercies, its pleasures, its gratitudes, its reliefs, its gorgeousnesses. Probing, sharp poems centering an awareness of human ephemerality answer the words of Viktor Shklovsky: \"And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.\" In \"If Indeed I Am Ill,\" Guez writes, \"These sonatas, these scores, tell me \/ what of them will last when everything falls away-\" Through these lyric expressions, Guez shows us not just how art can heal but how healing is art, a modality of acceptance, the meaning in the process, a mosaic of imperfections that creates and embraces what is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Guez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954245300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954245303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2022","brand":"Julia Guez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075049943295,"sku":"9781954245303","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16d58293-500d-48ed-b8ff-da631e6b0872.jpg?v=1685457315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-certain-body-julia-guez-9781954245303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}