Description: The poems in Coming Back to the Body form a wide arc that begins in the comforting landscape of a rural (Minnesota) childhood, grows up in the suburbs of doubt and uncertainty, visits real cities across the ocean, lingers in art museums and books, and finally arrives back at a place where the heart recognizes itself again. Many of these poems are about love -- lost and found -- and about living through things that fall apart. They often suspect that Death is somewhere nearby and that she is (as Wallace Stevens said) "the mother of beauty". The poems in Coming Back to the Body celebrate the surprise arrival of joy in the most ordinary moments.

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