{"product_id":"what-the-body-knows-book-jean-janzen-9781680270013","title":"What the Body Knows","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\u003eIn 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\u003eJean 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\u003eIn '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 LC and follows volume 11, \u003ci\u003eMomentary Stay\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Esch Shisler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51045009129745,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045011947793,"sku":"NIN9781680270013","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51602634932497,"sku":"CIN168027001XG","price":14.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695595847953,"sku":"CIN168027001XVG","price":15.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52147736772881,"sku":"NLS9781680270013","price":16.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/168027001X.jpg?v=1751343327","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/what-the-body-knows-book-jean-janzen-9781680270013","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}