ReWriting the Body

The body is a poem we are writing with every breath, says Townley, who in her dual life has taught yoga for decades. Albert Goldbarth calls Rewriting the Body “affectingly emotional even as it's formally risky in a very smart way.” Helen Houghton of the Academy says, “I don't know of anything else like this—a profound meditation, exhilarating to read, extraordinarily beautiful.” H. L. Hix says, “Her poems don't feel written on the reader's body, they feel written within it.”Excerpt from ReWriting the BodyBreath everything is riding on itunder the door winter slidesits white envelope past due past dueas we move from bed to chairand room to room our livessighing in the cedarsstrung on backroads to this placewhere we go in and outbreath by breath gravel and iceOrion overhead