{"product_id":"what-the-body-knows-poems-9781680270013","title":"What the Body Knows: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems that seeks the language of what lies deeply within the body, to listen and to name the longings, losses, and gains of a long life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In bygone centuries a mirror was held to the lips of a passing loved one to check for the delicate mist of life. These poems are like that mirror. To their reflecting surface clings a distillation of clarity and wisdom, precious to those who look into the glass.\" --\u003ci\u003eRhoda Janzen, Author\u003c\/i\u003e, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Mennonite Meets Mr. Right \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jean Janzen addresses her treasured topics--desire, mystery, language, family and heritage, music, embodied spirituality--with confidence and grace. 'Write it, the hunger and the song, ' says one poem. And she does, brilliantly. Janzen's vision has never been clearer; her words have never confessed more truth. This book took over 80 years to write, and its final, passionate message is 'mercy, ' a resounding 'Yes.'\" \u003ci\u003e --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author, \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry in America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In 'Winter Child' Jean Janzen remembers 'a kind of ecstasy' from a wintry afternoon, her 'small figure falling again and again \/ to make a host of angels in my own backyard.' Steeped as they are in loss and grief, these poems may hardly seem angelic--except in their glimmering music, their wintry knowledge, and their generous wisdom. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to savor and to treasure.\" \u003ci\u003e--Jeff Gundy, Author of Songs\u003c\/i\u003e from an Empty Cage \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Somewhere Near Defiance \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Author: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Janzen, a poet living in Fresno, California, is the author of six previous collections of poetry who has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and other awards. A graduate of Fresno Pacific University and California State University of Fresno, she has taught at Fresno Pacific and Eastern Mennonite University. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is volume 12 in the \u003cb\u003e DreamSeeker Poetry Series\u003c\/b\u003e released by Cascadia Publishing House LLC and follows volume 11, \u003ci\u003eMomentary Stay\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Esch Shisler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dreamseeker Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680270013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean Janzen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36665444794524,"sku":"9781680270013","price":11.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_743c050e-c8e8-49fd-b168-0e1c1ae98a5e.jpg?v=1603909469","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-the-body-knows-poems-9781680270013","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}