| Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today Contributor(s): Kwasny, Melissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0295742445 ISBN-13: 9780295742441 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2017017193 |
| Series: Pacific Northwest Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.60 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series--one of linked prose poems called "Another Letter to the Soul" and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history. Melissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence after death. The poems in "Another Letter to the Soul" point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us. |