Denise Duhamel April Lindners sublimely intelligent and compassionate poems make This Bed Our Bodies Shaped the kind of book that bes your friend on a bedside table. Her poems are tender and fierce, startling in their excavations. Lindner pauses at the imprints we leave, what is buried under sand and snow, what returns to us again and again. PRAISE FOR THIS BED OUR BODIES SHAPED: April Lindners This Bed Our Bodies Shaped is a beautifully intimate and domestic book about the culture of family-what we bring to each other, boldly or tentatively, and what can never be known. Eavesdropping on this engagingly narrated life gives us startling new insights into our own. Lindners craft, which finds masterful and original expression in metrical and free verse, enlivens each experience until we seem part of the scene. This collection is a celebration of the universal human experience-childhood, puberty, parenthood, aging-from a uniquely personal and sensual perspective. Book Synopsis This Bed Our Bodies Shaped from April Lindner is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. About the Book A finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book AwardNa collection that celebrates the universal human experiences of childhood, puberty, parenthood, and aging from a uniquely personal and sensual perspective.
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