Corpus

by Michael Symmons Roberts

Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and war.

Equally at ease with scripture (Jacob wrestling the Angel in 'Choreography') and science ('Mapping the Genome'),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224073427
• ISBN13: 9780224073424
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.9"