Sings the Body by Cindy Washabaugh

$14.99

 *****

Here is longing the way motherless girls seek mothers forever, seek sisters able to remember, boys and men that enable forgetfulness—sudden, intense, then metaphoric deflection you notice only after you turn the page and have to turn back, poem after poem, so that reading Sings the Body is a paging of fore- and aft-bodings like snatches of dreams you can’t hold onto. No wonder the speaker materializes a Simian monkey and familiar attached to her voice like a yearning, just waiting to be told what to do! Sings the Body is a spellbinding book of poems by a poet I have watched evolve into first rate.

–Dr. Lucia Cordell Getsi, Editor Emerita, Spoon River Poetry Review (author of Intensive Care).

Rating: *****  [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

I feel it is rare to find a very committed and excellent poet who also can step into the poetry-as-healer dimension. At IPM, our collaboration with Cindy has resulted in communities being deeply touched and lifted up by her gifts of bringing poetry as healer. Besides being a fine, fine poet, the poetry work she does with people is exemplary.

–Written by John Fox, PhD, CPT, Founder and Director of The Institute for Poetic Medicine (author of Finding What We Didn’t Lose, Expressing your Truth and Creativity through Poem Making, etc.)

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Cindy Washabaugh’s poetry truly Sings the Body. From the loss of her mother’s body to her own awakening into a woman’s body, from the grief that continues to live in the body to the longing and consolation of the body, these poems give us vivid moments, precise images, witty observations and tender lyricism to bring us into the insistence and power of “our bodies, our souls’ ambassadors.”

–Ellen Bass, Acclaimed poet (Like a Beggar, Mules of Love, etc.)

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

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Sings the Body

by Cindy Washabaugh

$14.99, paper

These 26 sensual poems tell the story of one phase of a life’s journey impacted by the early and unexpected loss of a mother; of how such a thing shapes a daughter’s life as she becomes a woman—with her lovers, friends, with her sister, with her own daughter, and with the landscapes of her world, both internal and external.

Themes that emerge and are explored include the body, song, sexuality, death, fear, aging, magic, the night, and re-claiming the self.

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

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