{"product_id":"bodies-of-time-and-space-paperback","title":"Bodies of Time and Space - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlen a. Mazis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is rare to read a poet of such sensuous exuberance and happiness. Gently philosophical, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodies of Time and Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the cosmic intimacy of matter and movement, sounds and silence, plants and planets, animal nature and human love. We are not alone; the earth is inside of us. Although Mazis does not shrink from painful memories, although as a species, humans in this book are self-absorbed, greedy, and arrogant, the natural world and its myriad glorious inhabitants-bees, bears, seals, salamanders, wolfs, worms, birds, and turtles-come to rest \"within the soundless circle that is wider than any collection \/ of words or sounds from which they borrow their heart.\" In Mazis' stunningly insightful phrase, words and sounds only \u003ci\u003elend\u003c\/i\u003e us our hearts, for we are all ultimately gathered into a soundless circle, the sanctuary of the \"quiet we dream.\" While a \"cosmic calligrapher\" writes the universe, the poet merely dreams the \"tiny cerulean dreams\" of lovers. But in this extraordinary book, the tiny is vast and deep. Glen Mazis' \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodies of Time and Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is profoundly moving, beautiful, and wise\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Harold Schweizer, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Lingering and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would take a poet of Glen Mazis' immense sensibility to understand that the water \u003cbr\u003ein our bodies came from collisions between the Earth and a vast array of comets millions \u003cbr\u003eof years ago, and that even now, traveling 6000 miles an hour around the sun, we are \u003cbr\u003ebalanced on tectonic plates that are floating on lava as we surf through the universe. \u003cbr\u003eThese poems have that same gravitational pull and know that the \"abandoned hives\" \u003cbr\u003eof the earth's many bodies are where \"the earth's creatures lie.\" These poems are filled \u003cbr\u003ewith tender, unflinching, hard-won moments, and they rub their legs against the edifice \u003cbr\u003eof our ruins. But they do more than that. They are woven with notes of hopefulness and \u003cbr\u003ebuild bridges into the landscapes of our shared interior lives, our tribal DNA. It is no \u003cbr\u003ecoincidence that the human body and the Earth's skin are both composed of the same ratio \u003cbr\u003eof water, and this tight, resonant collection is filled with lines that ebb and flow like the tides, folding their themes over into the reader's taut subconscious and foaming with quiet surprises over and over. \"A mother is the curve of the earth,\" he writes, \"a steady hold on who we are.\" Mazis knows that History is filled with astonishments, like the ninth configuration of protein molecules that caused the first life on the planet to bubble forth. The poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodies of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTime and Space\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare like a toy car, pull them into your body and they leap forward twice as far. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Keith Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Skin of Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Asheville Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124915605639,"sku":"9781639801954","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0acc920368df9122a3afb73968fa4019.webp?v=1732573753","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bodies-of-time-and-space-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}