The Anatomist

by Taryn Schwilling

"Schwilling knows that to deny the body is also to deny the poem, that both share a lyric principle, both always able to be opened, be it for love, for harm, for sustenance, or repair."
—Dan Beachy-Quick

The Anatomist is a collection of lyric dissections that re-history the female body. The erotic is languaged like lace. Schwilling renders portraits variously as Venus, as saint, as butchered beast, as bee colony, as loss. The poems in this collection take the body apart, piece by piece, to remake her in her own vision. To make her desires into song.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2015

Reviews

[John Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really loved this. Spare, leaping poetry.