{"product_id":"the-certain-body-9781954245303","title":"The Certain Body","description":"In the long limbo of post-viral syndrome, Julia Guez aptly frames the recursive paralysis of pandemic rhetoric, whose seeming transitions always arrive at the same uncertainty: \"and then what \/ and then \/ what, what \/ then.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Certain Body\u003c\/i\u003e captures life with illness-how the body moves through disease and rests in the liminal space of otherness. Following the speaker through a harrowing and disorienting SARS-Cov-2 infection, readers witness the poet's gradual refortification as Guez traverses all facets of sickness: its mercies, its pleasures, its gratitudes, its reliefs, its gorgeousnesses. Probing, sharp poems centering an awareness of human ephemerality answer the words of Viktor Shklovsky: \"And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.\" In \"If Indeed I Am Ill,\" Guez writes, \"These sonatas, these scores, tell me \/ what of them will last when everything falls away-\" Through these lyric expressions, Guez shows us not just how art can heal but how healing is art, a modality of acceptance, the meaning in the process, a mosaic of imperfections that creates and embraces what is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Guez is a writer and translator based in the city of New York. Her essays, interviews, fiction, poetry and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been awarded the Discovery\/\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship and The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation as well as a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For the last decade, Guez has worked with Teach For America New York; she's currently the senior managing director of design and implementation. She teaches creative writing at NYU and Rutgers. You can find more of her work online at www.juliaguez.net.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389274591506,"sku":"9781954245303","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94472144-8cf2-4ac0-80c3-8d2cfd6469ef.jpg?v=1728918958","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-certain-body-9781954245303","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}