Böcker av Melissa Kwasny

The author is incredibly prolific and has published seven books of poems and forty translations from French by authors such as Roland BarthesThe author is widely published in outlets like Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project and has won the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemly AwardThe book’s exploration of internal and external grief, stemming from the loss of a family member and climate grief, will appeal to a wide readership

Explores the age-old relationship between humans and animals, providing fascinating details about the historic and current use of animals as clothing

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven seriesΓÇöone of linked prose poems called ΓÇ£Another Letter to the SoulΓÇ¥ 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 ΓÇ£Another Letter to the SoulΓÇ¥ 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.