{"product_id":"god-had-a-body-poems-paperback-softback-9780253047243","title":"God Had a Body; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253047243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGod Had a Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennie Malboeuf (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253047243\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.159 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Salient and provoking, sensuous and cerebral, Jennie Malboeuf's poems locate holiness in the living, dead, partial and whole creations of this planet: among them a \"cow's eye . . . so pretty I squinched hard\/and wished it back to the socket\"; a \"redback spider [that] throws himself\/into the hollow fangs of his beloved\" ; a dead whale whose \"mouth hung open\/like a friendly doorway,\" until \"that certain scent of ending\" makes the human fantasy of welcome clear. Yes, we are like the animals—whether tiny or enormous—but make no mistake: they are themselves, worthy of our attention and our reverence, rarely reflecting us. As Malboeuf puts it, \"the birds we kept\/in cages fought any mirror.\" The poet laces her observant news of these encounters with a biblical re-envisioning, as well as with her own peculiar wit: for example, in \"The Cow's Eye,\" Malboeuf notes that \"Daddy picked it up from the stockyards . . . He said it'd help with my science project.\" In another encounter, the speaker's father has a run-in with a mosquito: \"at the height of an anecdote, a mosquito, a female, \/ flew inside his head.\" The humor there is spiky and profound. At the doctor's office, the daughter gets to see \"the mold of hot wax they poured to pull her—preserved in flight—right out.\" In \"The Hydra,\" that organism is described as \"a penis-shaped creature with a spider\/topping its head.\" This poet thrives amid and among other bodies, observing, feeling, and listening, trying very hard not to cut life short or diminish its sacredness with fallible descriptions, while acknowledging with her striking wit our human-centric eye. I relish these poems and will return to them for their stories, their humor, and the ways they intertwine language and life.\"—Lisa Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eWoman Reading to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"There is a fierce spirituality and mordant wit in \u003ci\u003eGod \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ead a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eody\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennie Malboeuf's first book of poems. Here is a poet with a transformative vision of divine and earthly enterprise as well as a sharp eye for the repercussions of physical detail.  Malboeuf's use of enactments and embodiments—actions and images—startle and awaken the reader to a powerful new voice in American poetry. What a glorious debut collection.\"—Stuart Dischell, author of \u003ci\u003eChildren with Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in \u003ci\u003eGod had a body\u003c\/i\u003e considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible future—from a troubled reckoning with belief to loss and promise still ahead.\u003cbr\u003e In this debut collection from Jennie Malboeuf, we observe undercurrents of violence and power, the dynamics of memory, gender, marriage, and miscarriage. At times, God is brutal. At times, delicate. Through true stories of animal savagery, \u003ci\u003eGod had a body\u003c\/i\u003e unravels human behavior and undoes the opaque and cryptic mysteries of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e The Godhead\u003cbr\u003e Part I\u003cbr\u003e First Death Ever Filmed\u003cbr\u003e Christ is a Great Blue Heron\u003cbr\u003e The Cow's Eye\u003cbr\u003e Animals in the Bible\u003cbr\u003e Frog Gig, 1983\u003cbr\u003e Some Things Have Been Heard Enough\u003cbr\u003e Grackles\u003cbr\u003e Wilding\u003cbr\u003e Ruth\u003cbr\u003e Sacred Heart\u003cbr\u003e Animals\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of God\u003cbr\u003e A Figure for the Holy Ghost\u003cbr\u003e Part II\u003cbr\u003e The Country\u003cbr\u003e Orrery\u003cbr\u003e The Leonids\u003cbr\u003e Early Signs of the Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e Zoonosis\u003cbr\u003e Song of the Cock\u003cbr\u003e Men in My Bed as Dead Animal in Dog Mouth\u003cbr\u003e al Meal\u003cbr\u003e Landscape Where I Forget My Father\u003cbr\u003e Blindfold\u003cbr\u003e Animals in Captivity\u003cbr\u003e The Nightjar\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;lt;GRAY\u0026amp;gt;phylum\u0026amp;lt;\\GRAY\u0026amp;gt;::class::order::family::\u0026amp;lt;GRAY\u0026amp;gt;genus\u0026amp;lt;\\GRAY\u0026amp;gt;\u003cbr\u003e The Giving Away\u003cbr\u003e Repletion\u003cbr\u003e Snakehandling\u003cbr\u003e Fear\u003cbr\u003e What the Eclipse Does to Animals\u003cbr\u003e The Miracle of the Pigs\u003cbr\u003e Landscape Where I Miss My Mother\u003cbr\u003e Phobia, 1985\u003cbr\u003e lullaby\u003cbr\u003e Grandmothers\u003cbr\u003e The Men\u003cbr\u003e In the Myths\u003cbr\u003e Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e Hubris\u003cbr\u003e The Women\u003cbr\u003e First Mirror\u003cbr\u003e The Screwworm\u003cbr\u003e Mnemonics\u003cbr\u003e Ode to the Cannibal\u003cbr\u003e Man, Beast, Lion, Bird\u003cbr\u003e God-man\u003cbr\u003e Inscape\u003cbr\u003e Thought Inventory with Rorschach and Caesura\u003cbr\u003e Letting Go\u003cbr\u003e Topography of a Bird\u003cbr\u003e Part III\u003cbr\u003e Newfound Star System\u003cbr\u003e Double Star—\u003cbr\u003e Orbs\u003cbr\u003e The Godwit\u003cbr\u003e To Begin With\u003cbr\u003e Heavy Animals, or Frustrated Attempts to See God\u003cbr\u003e Immolation\u003cbr\u003e The Hydra\u003cbr\u003e Eschatology\u003cbr\u003e The Gospels\u003cbr\u003e The Lesser Water Boatman\u003cbr\u003e Orgasm as Lapwing\u003cbr\u003e Erection\u003cbr\u003e Valentine\u003cbr\u003e The Quickening\u003cbr\u003e Wedding Night\u003cbr\u003e Elfland\u003cbr\u003e Nesting\u003cbr\u003e flying change\u003cbr\u003e Strawberry Moon\u003cbr\u003e Honest Signals\u003cbr\u003e Reasons We Should Be Together\u003cbr\u003e The Night We Decided Was a Day\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525310935320,"sku":"9780253047243","price":9.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/god-had-a-body-poems-paperback-softback-9780253047243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}