Fragile Bodies

by Victoria Bennett

Fragile Bodies is a moving treatment of a love affair and the loss of a stillborn child, conveying the longing and pain of both in everyday yet often very tender and evocative language. Forget the term "love poem", for this collection we need a whole new term of reference. These are poems that dare expose the bare bones of relationships, isolation, and longing, that never stray into the sentimental in saying the things we dont say. The story of one relationship is told, but parallels all such unions. This is high quality writing about the universal, overpowering nature of love, and it leaves the reader with a message that is simple, yet at the same time profound. An engaged writer constantly testing her limit.

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