{"product_id":"9781680270013","title":"What the Body Knows: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems that seeks the language of what lies deeply within the body, to listen and to name the longings, losses, and gains of a long life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In bygone centuries a mirror was held to the lips of a passing loved one to check for the delicate mist of life. These poems are like that mirror. To their reflecting surface clings a distillation of clarity and wisdom, precious to those who look into the glass.\" --\u003ci\u003eRhoda Janzen, Author\u003c\/i\u003e, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Mennonite Meets Mr. Right\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jean Janzen addresses her treasured topics--desire, mystery, language, family and heritage, music, embodied spirituality--with confidence and grace. 'Write it, the hunger and the song,' says one poem. And she does, brilliantly. Janzen's vision has never been clearer; her words have never confessed more truth. This book took over 80 years to write, and its final, passionate message is 'mercy,' a resounding 'Yes.'\" \u003ci\u003e --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author, \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In 'Winter Child' Jean Janzen remembers 'a kind of ecstasy' from a wintry afternoon, her 'small figure falling again and again \/ to make a host of angels in my own backyard.' Steeped as they are in loss and grief, these poems may hardly seem angelic--except in their glimmering music, their wintry knowledge, and their generous wisdom. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to savor and to treasure.\" \u003ci\u003e--Jeff Gundy, Author of Songs\u003c\/i\u003e from an Empty Cage \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Somewhere Near Defiance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Author: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Janzen, a poet living in Fresno, California, is the author of six previous collections of poetry who has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and other awards. A graduate of Fresno Pacific University and California State University of Fresno, she has taught at Fresno Pacific and Eastern Mennonite University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is volume 12 in the \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreamSeeker Poetry Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e released by Cascadia Publishing House LLC and follows volume 11, \u003ci\u003eMomentary Stay\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Esch Shisler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamseeker Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032147542256,"sku":"9781680270013","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680270013_p0.jpg?v=1763687940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680270013","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}