![]() “Jennifer Perrine’s The Body Is No Machine astonishes us with its deft balance of the sensual and the intellectual. But these poems, generous and tough, sing to us anyway, and wake in us the legless Peruvian lizards of possibility.” Death, that older man it’s easy to fall for, can at any time have any body he wants. These poems make room for our faults and scars, our flaws and errors. What do we value in a body? Who should live and who should die? Why? These poems ask essential questions about our bodies of assumptions, individual and cultural. Each molting adult in these poems flits like ‘a luminaria guttering in the wind.’ Music, art, genetics, family, and myth samba together, this life a dance called ‘survival of the mutant most fit.’ With great brio and wit, Jennifer Perrine’s universe expands, explodes, excites. Gender bends so far the barriers between us and within us shift and change. “Seduced by words, this poet thinks with her whole body. These poems are exact, intelligent, vivid, thrilling-a first book to admire, and a poet to watch.” The Body Is No Machine-indeed! Here we see the sensual body in all its chameleon shades of gender and passion. “Jennifer Perrine is a poet of formal agility and surprise, with a command of language that ranges from the spare to the luxuriously rampant, from the scientific to the ecstatic. Winner of the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry
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