Body language : a head-to-toe anthology / edited by John B. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, John B., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Literary collections.

Human body.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press, 2003.

Summary:

"An insightful body of work about the human body.

Body Language brings together the work of both established and emerging writers. Anthologist and poet "John B. Lee has compiled an anthology of poems and stories arising from insights about the human body

Griffin nominee and Governor General Award winning poet "Margaret Avison muses on the body as water. Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan, "Glen Sorestad turns his attention to the hands. Others write of the art of the gut, the phantom limb, the beauty of breasts, and the mystery of Napoleon's hand. Nothing is beyond the writer's concern: even podiatry becomes philosophy. As "Robert Sward writes in his poem, One Stop Foot Shop, "Truth is, peoples' feet are too good for them."

Between our haircut and the floor, we yearn to know what it means to be human.

Contents:

Beginning with the body / Ann Shinn 9

For anyone with a body / Brian Bartlett 10

Joy / Barbara Curry Mulcahy 11

Rising Dust / Margaret Avison 12

In some ways our bodies are perfect / Cheryl Sutherland 13

Form / Barbara Myers 16

The Sculptor / Lawrence Hutchman 17

I Cut My Hair in Bracebridge / Karen P. Oullette 17

Five-Pattern Baldness / Ron Charach 18

Baldness / Morton Marcus 20

Furfuraceous / Ryan G. Van Cleave 21

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Beard / Lawrence Schimet 22

Third Eye / Patricia Black 25

Some Dreams Come, IV / Jacqualine Bell 25

Physiognomy / Tamara Fairchild 26

Unfinished Portrait / Betty Dobson 28

Tears in a Bottle / Joan Latchford 29

On Looking at Snapshots of Us Wearing 3-D Glasses / Marjorie L. Manwaring 30

Jennie Blue Sky / Patricia Black 31

Underwater / Rob mclennan 33

Ear / Dominique Rabideau 34

Noses / Rienzi Crusz 35

Proboscis / Ryan G. Van Cleave 36

My Brother's Nose / Jeff Seffinga 37

Multi Lingual / Karen McElrea 38

The Badge / Don Gutteridge 39

Hinges / Karen Herzog 40

Eclipse / Wanda Campbell 40

Self-Portrait / Julia Van Gorder 46

One Year From Fifty Looking / Vian Emery 47

Black Knight / Dan Badowich 49

Right & Wrong / C.M. Mayo 50

We Had Wings Once / Ellen S. Jaffe 50

Shoulder / Dale Ritterbusch 51

Momento Mori / Rishma Dunlop 52

Talking about breasts / Suellen Wedmore 53

Another Thing I ought to be Doing / Marilyn Taylor 54

Covenant / Marilyn Gear Pilling 55

Boobs-more or less / Mary Ann Mulhern 57

Breasts / Rosie Molinary 58

Breasts / John Coats 59

Heart Song / Wanda Campbell 60

Kitchen Porn / John B. Lee 61

A heart / Gina Morrow 62

All or nothing / Leslie Mcllroy 63

Metta Meditation / Penn Kemp 64

Sight into sight / Cornelia Hoogland 65

Umbilicus / Joan Latchford 66

The Things some people keep in their freezers / Tamara Fairchild 66

Kidneys / Terry Ann Carter 68

Oracle / Tanis MacDonald 69

Some Words For My Belly / Marcus Morton 70

The Art of the Gut / Marty Gervais 72

Green Tea / Dale Ritterbusch 74

Transformations / Ellen S. Jaffe 74

Her Hands / Tony Cosier 76

Personality Test / Christopher Doda 77

Middle-Aged Woman with fists / Cornelia Hoogland 77

Napoleon's Hand / John B. Lee 78

She Blossoms in a crumbling place / Bradley Somer 80

When Hands Sleep / Glen Sorestad 81

Sea World / Lynn Tait 81

An Injury / John Terpstra 82

People Who Aren't Afraid of Needles / Priscilla Uppal 83

A Failure of Evolution / Suellen Wedmore 84

Polish / Ronnie R. Brown 85

Writing Like a man / Malca Litovitz 86

Commitment / James Clarke 87

A Series of Short poems on my dick / John Wing Jr. 89

The Penis, So Far / John B. Lee 91

This is what I know about penises / Marty Gervais 93

House Robe / Paul Quenon 96

Miss Michigan in sixty seconds / Rhoda Janzen 98

The Trinidad Bottom / Diane Driedger 99

Metaphors for a Fallen Body / Dawn Kressan 100

Her Last Legs / Marilyn Gear Pilling 101

Phantom Limb / Tanis MacDonald 102

The Ghost of her Legs / Hugh MacDonald 103

Dancer Buries Own Leg / Roger Bell 103

I Sleep / Betty Ellis 105

The Knee-at 45 / Don Johnson 106

Why I Stopped Watching Surgery / Lori Cayer 108

My Knees / Susan Richardson 109

Skinned Shins / Roger Bell 109

Writing poems feet first / Cornelia Hoogland 110

Feet first / Seymour Mayne 112

Soak Your Foot, And Make a poem out of it / Malca Litovitz 112

Feet / Ronnie Brown 113

I have three sons / Kathleen Abley 113

One Stop Foot Shop / Robert Sward 114

The Raft of Medusa / George Whipple 115

Footloose / Dianne Wey 116

Body poetic / Bob Stamp 124

The Language of Skin / Jennifer Laurence 125

The Colour of Memory / George Whipple 126

The Golden Spike Award / Richard Stevenson 127

This is the body consoling itself / Sue MacLeod 128

What the Body wants / Glenn Kletke 129

Clipper / April Bulmer 130

Where's the Body / Ron Charach 131

Cartography / Rishma Dunlop 132

Reprieve for the body / John Pass 133

The Priest / Pier Giorgio Di Cicco 135.

ISBN:

0887533825 :

OCLC:

52327826