BODIES PASSING - Tecno-Libro

Laura Altshul?s poems are ?lit with life,? to steal a phrase from this poet whose work is insistent and tender in perfect measure. Bodies Passing opens for us the pot?s lid allowing us to experience the intense sensory details stirred into poems such as On Kauai, where ?Air lightens around us, surrounds us/ humid and salty, sweet with jasmine/ gardenia, funky garbage, burnt sugar cane/ fried peppers and onions.? Subjects ranging from the wonderful ars poetica that opens the collection to a woman sleeping with the ashes of a murdered child bear the bold mark of a poet able to deftly tackle the terrors and joys that are the essence of human experience. Laura Altshul?s book is a gift to those who hunger for honesty and compassion in this complex world of ours.?Julia Paul, Manchester Poet Laureate?Bodies Passing observes and celebrates the life of the body?its power and pains, its delights and limitations. Laura Altshul?s earthy poems delve into sex, childbirth (or in some cases, animal birth), illness, infidelity, and the urgent impulse to get up and dance. The people in her poems come to life as complicated an