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What's Written on the Bodyby Peter Pereira
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"It's rare in contemporary poetry to find a book as boldly celebratory as Peter Pereira's new collection."-Chase Twichell In What's Written on the Body,physician Peter Pereira explores the body, medicine, wordplay, gardening, family, and domestic gay life, often drawing from his experience as a community clinic doctor in Seattle. An avid Scrabble player, anagrammer, and cruciverbalist, Pereira opens the collection with a delightful selection of wordplay poems, as a counterpoint to poems recounting the day-to-day practice of a family physician, from suturing a wound in the ER to extracting an eraser from a child's nose. From "Body Talk": Do you hear how the scalp claps? Peter Pereirais a family physician in Seattle, where he cares for an urban, underserved population of immigrants, refugees, housing project residents, and the elderly. His first book won the Hayden Carruth Award, and his individual poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Poetry,USA Weekend,and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Synopsis:Pereira's double-life as a medical doctor and word-playful poet offers an enriching perspective. Synopsis:Poetry. In this book of poetry Peter Pereira is at the forefront of a national movement for medical practitioners to incorporate literature-especially poetry-into their training. In WHAT'S WRITTEN ON THE BODY, Pereira draws the physical self into poetic interplay between intellect and imagination, contrasting language games with the themes and imagery of medicine, religion, and gay domestic life. His second collection opens with a selection of "anagrammers"-wordplay poems-that serve as a counterpoint to pieces recounting the day-to-day practice of a family physician. "Pereira is a master of many modes, all of them yielding either wisdom or delight. Here we find poems in which anagrams bustle toward revelation, or ones where we stand alongside the poet-doctor as he steadfastly gazes and does his best to heal"--Gregory Orr. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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