ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title> Poetry and Prose from In Posse Review</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="author" content="In Posse Review, http://www.webdelsol.com" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="19_a_style.css" /> </head> <body> <center> <br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="35px"> <p> <img src="insposse.gif" width="30px" height="187px" alt=" " /><br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="15px" bgcolor="#0f0000">&nbsp;</td> <td width="15px">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="400px"> <h2>Poetry and the Body</h2> <p><b>Peter Pereira, Guest Editor</b></p> <P> <p>First off, I d like to thank Ilya Kaminsky and Tatyana Mishel for inviting me to be a guest poetry editor for this issue of <em>In Posse Review</em>. When we put out the call for submissions on the theme of  Poetry and the Body, I really had no idea what to expect. I am delighted to say our poets responded by considering the topic both deeply and widely. Thank you to all you who sent in poems for me to read. It was a revealing  lyric investigation. </p> <p>The poems I have chosen sorted themselves under several themes: </p> <p>Exploring the body at our most creaturely life moment, there are poems from both men and women about <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Birthing">Birthing the Body</a>. </p> <p>There were, not surprisingly, a number of wonderful poems about specific body parts, especially hands, feet, breasts, and eyes. We are more than the sum of our parts, but we are also ultimately beholden to them. These are grouped under <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Parts">Parts of the Body</a> which include Parts of Speech. </p> <p>Looking at the body at its most vulnerable, we have poems of sickness and distress, recovery and healing in <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Medical">The Medical Body</a>; as well as poems exploring love, passion and eros in <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Erotic">The Erotic Body</a>. </p> <p>Perhaps related to our current political climate, there were a significant number of poems depicting the body at war, either from social or political oppression, or oppression from within. These are collected in <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Political">The Political Body</a>. </p> <p>Finally, there were many poems exploring the body through its counterpart in an abiding spirit. In <a href="IPR_BodyTOC.htm#Soul">Body & Soul</a> you will find poems that include a man considering the boat of his deceased soldier-son, as well as a lovely sonnet cycle addressing the idea of sin and artistic form. </p> <p>I hope you will enjoy the range and tone of these many fine poems. </p> <hr /> <p>Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in <em>Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, JAMA</em>, and have been widely anthologized, including in the forthcoming 2007 <em>Best American Poetry</em>. His books include <em>The Lost Twin</em> and <em>Saying the World</em>, which won the 2002 Hayden Carruth Award. His latest book, <em>What s Written on the Body</em>, was released by Copper Canyon in February 2007.</p> <br /> <br /> <div id="logo"><em>In Posse:</em> Potentially, might be . . . </div> <p><img src="tedhead.gif" align="right" alt="logo" /></p> <h3><a href="http://webdelsol.com/InPosse/index.htm" align="right"> Return</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </h3> <br /> <hr /> </td></tr></table></center></body></html>