{"product_id":"the-uses-of-the-body-9781556594816","title":"The Uses of the Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A thrilling meditation on the passages of a woman's life.\"--\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Landau's killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath--leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire. \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is her best book, its acerbic tone interspersed with lines of grave and startling beauty.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like Richard Linklater's \u003ci\u003eBoyhood, \u003c\/i\u003ebut for girls (and women): Deborah Landau's vividly relatable third collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, reminds us that coming of age lasts well beyond adolescence.\" --\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* \"As freshly immediate as ever, award-winning poet Landau reveals that 'the uses of the body are manifold, ' moving in four sections with a roughly chronological feel from wedding parties to flabby bodies around the pool to the realization 'But we already did everything'--all with an underlying sense of urgency: 'Life please explain.' As Landau explores her physical self and her sexuality, she's tart, witty, fluid, direct, and brutally honest, and her work can be appreciated by any reader.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deborah Landau . . . is both confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. Her taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions meditate upon yearning and selfhood.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Landau's \u003ci\u003eUses of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e presents the very specific challenges of womanhood. Her poems address what it means to be alive--\u003ci\u003eright now\u003c\/i\u003e--in a female body. She fills her poetry with compelling nouns: wine glasses, bridal gowns, and \"books and teacups and ghosts.\" And \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e ghosts: underneath evocative images and poetic play, there's a moving, yearning mysticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Mr and Mrs End of Suffering\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe uses of the body are wake up.\u003cbr\u003eThe uses of the body, illusion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe uses of the body. Rinse repeat.\u003cbr\u003eTo make another body.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeptember. Draw the blanket up.\u003cbr\u003eLace your shoes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe major and minor passions. Sunlight. Hair.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe basic pleasures. Tomatoes, Keats, meeting a smart man for a drink.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe uses of the body.\u003cbr\u003eIt is only a small house. It gets older.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIts upper and lower.\u003cbr\u003eIts red and white trim.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's tempting to gloss over this part, \u003cbr\u003eso you won't really see me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Landau\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two books of poetry. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she earned her PhD. Currently she is the director of the NYU Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Landau is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrchidelirium\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Usable Hour\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. For many years she co-hosted the Open Book series on Slate.com, and she is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492885106962,"sku":"9781556594816","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9925ebe9-7854-47a3-8216-37e93a2c5064.jpg?v=1730612777","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-uses-of-the-body-9781556594816","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}