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"It is only through the body that we receive images, and mostly through the images that we receive poems. Braving the Body is a collection of these fierce images; of 116 bodies; of, as Whitman writes in Leaves of Grass, ""head, neck, hair, ears . . . mouth, tongue, lips . . . bowels sweet and clean . . . brain in its folds inside the skull frame . . . heart valves""; of Liza Katz Duncan's 10-week pregnant body driving south; of Diane Seuss's hair ""the color of a field mouse"" and Justin Wymer's ""pill the color of her hair""; of the cast made of Drew Skelton's teeth; the discarded membranes of Fia Montero's ""Diastasis Recti Abdominis""; the imagined daffodils planted by ""our children's children"" of Ann Fisher-Wirth's final consummation with her beloved. Absurd, sublime, anxious, and tender-these poems resonate in the very place they were born-the brave body in all its gore and glory."

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