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Praised by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as "a monumental achievement", The Selfless Bliss of The Body is award-winning novelist Gayle Brandeis' first full-length poetry collection. Poems from the book have been honored by the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Competition and the US Department of the Interior, which installed one of the poems at the Visitor Center in Joshua Tree National Park. These poems reach deeply into the body to reach beyond the body; Fresno Poet Laureate Lee Herrick writes "These tender and fierce poems are breathtaking gifts from a writer whose love for the world knows no bounds."
I really meant to savor these poems one by one over a period of weeks. I really truly did. But somehow, this evening, the pages just turned themselves, and suddenly I've devoured every single word. I've been a Gayle Brandeis fan since reading The Book of Dead Birds a decade or more ago, and now pre-order anything she writes the day I hear about it. Her writing is always thoughtful, provocative, and ultimately celebratory of life. This collection is downright delicious.