The View from the Body

by Renee Ashley

"Ren e Ashley's stunning new book is indeed a 'view from the body, ' but it's a 'body named / bone, named brain.' Haunted at times by the dead, by the past, by death itself, Ashley finds her most frequent specter in the self and its disturbances, which few poets since Dickinson have explored so unflinchingly. Language is the means of both exploration and transcendence: words burst into double meanings, invent themselves, and reverse our linguistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625579551
• ISBN13: 9781625579553
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"