| Body Clock
Reviews
Cole Swensen:
“Tracing ‘the story of how we fell from timelessness to time’ is Sikelianos’s project in these lyrical flights. A master of contingency, she weaves intricate nets of association that connect newborns to watermelons to polar bears. And at the base of it all is the body, the human body, but also the bodies of minutes and hours, which she sketches as she times them, creating marvelous portraits of the otherwise invisible. This book is a tour-de-force of sound and hope, a brainy unraveling of enigma to reveal the enigmas underneath.”
C.D. Wright:
“Body Clock explores the vast interiors of the intimate and insular estate of pregnancy and the start of motherhood with time-machine precision and a newborn’s curiosity. The mind seizes upon the copious concerns attending the body’s new status; girds itself, and embraces the fold. Part planetary book of confinement, part cosmic baby book, Sikelianos fills this vivid account with the mindfulness, playfulness, and lyric intensity of a poet in the center of her bloom.”
Also Available
by this Author:
|
