Description
A harrowing and formally ambitious collection of dramatic monologues, this book probes the volatile territory where body, mind, desire, and suffering converge. Its speakers—including an amputee, a suicidal anorexic, and figures confronting grief, artistic obsession, and spiritual longing—are caught in struggles that challenge the boundaries of identity, free will, and physical existence. Through psychologically intense voices and stark, searching language, the poems explore the compulsions that shape human lives and the painful distance between what we desire and what the body allows. The result is an uncompromising meditation on intimacy, mortality, embodiment, and the possibility of survival through art.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1977
44 pages
ISBN: 9780374115494
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Details
First Published
1977
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart.