Let Our Bodies Change the Subject

By Jared Harel

National Jewish Book Award Finalist
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist

Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared Har l investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, Har l guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief.

"I will try," he admits, "to be better than myself, which is all/I've ever wanted and everything I need." Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, Har l works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496237293
• ISBN13: 9781496237293
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"