Wisdom of the Body

by Judith Roche

Wisdom of the Body is a meditation in poetry on the bodiness,-the physicality-of all things: our bodies and how they change, the salmon and their life cycle, trees, flowers, the earth, everything caught in the mystery of time. The book contains a series of poems on the life cycle of Pacific Northwest salmon that was a City of Seattle public arts project, and poems from the libretto of a musical piece by noted composer Janice Gitech, Navigating the Light.

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2007

Reviews

[Janée Baugher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Homage to Seattle-area fisheries, which was funded by City of Seattle and the Seattle Arts Commission, and published by a Seattle publisher. Roche positions herself as a naturalist writer with these fish poems. I especially enjoyed the moments of deep-imagery. Good science-related poem on page 39, "Solstice Garden."