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Corpus (Cape Poetry) (Paperback)

by Michael Symmons Roberts (Author)

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Paperback: 84 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; New edition edition (12 Aug 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0224073427
ISBN-13: 978-0224073424
Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 1.2 cm

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Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' ambitious and inventive fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and war. Equally at ease with scripture (Jacob wrestling the Angel in 'Choreography') and science ('Mapping the Genome'), these poems are a thrilling blend of modern and ancient wisdom, a profound and lyrical exploration of the mysteries of the body: So the martyrs took the lamb. It tasted rich, steeped in essence Of anchovy. They picked it clean And found within, a goose, its pink Beak in the lamb's mouth like a tongue. Ranging effortlessly between the physical extremes of death - from putrefaction to purification - and life - drought and flood, hunger and satiation - the poems in Corpus speak most movingly of 'living the half-life between two elements', of what it is to be unique and luminously alive.

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A book about bodies, dead and living, real and imagined, earthbound and resurrected

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4.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant look at the human body...., 3 Dec 2004

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This book is a modern masterpiece. The one major thing I would say that it shows is how frail and simple the human body is. He shows the body in simple and beautiful terms, and demonstrating its frailities and complexities. His poems are hard hitting, with true signs of genies in every line. The reason I give it 4/5 is because I felt that the poems were often a little to easy to read. I like something you have to really grapple with, and this didnt fulfil that quota, but its beauty overcame that and left me with a profound feeling of what it is to be a living human being.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Diving into Corpus, 6 Sep 2006

By	Matt Wilson "piccadillywilson" (MANCHESTER UK) - See all my reviews

In this collection of poems Michael Symmons Roberts explores life and death, well actually 'explores' is probably not a good word in this context, 'dissects' or 'examines' would be better. You see so close does MSR draw you to the somatic subject matter that after turning a few pages you are left with a strange sensation, as if someone else's sweat were dripping down your spine. Yes, at times it really is that creepy... but never morbid, quite the opposite in fact. For instance JAIRUS oozes stickily whilst celebrating the aromatic goodness of mortality; and TONGUE journeys dizzyingly through fear and violence to the shimmering brink of hope.
If you love words, and believe in their ability to stir the soul, you will find Corpus a powerful agitator.

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