Bright Body - Paperback

by Aliki Barnstone (Author)

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.--Robert Pinsky

In Bright Body, Aliki Barnstone seeks to unite mind and body, spirit and matter, the individual and the body politic. Many of the poems are set in Las Vegas, a monument to materialism. This city of extremes informs Barnstone's vision and serves as a backdrop for her meditations on American history, war, the environment, erotic love, and the love of mother and child.

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, and critic.

Author Biography

Aliki Barnstone: Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, and critic. Her previous books of poems include Blue Earth, Wild With It, Madly in Love, Windows in Providence and most recently Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems.
Among her other books are The Collected Poems of C.V. Cavafy, Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development, and the anthologies, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now and Voices of Light: Women's Spiritual Poetry from around the World. She is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia.