Resurrected Body

they have] given / and received.' Believe, as these speakers do, that what restores the body beyond the hope of resurrection is language, making words 'a matter of sticks to gather up and burn.' This is astounding work: funny, fractured, patient, as close to life and time as any parent is, watching her child at play: 'one muscle of present tense, / her hair carrying / the light.'" - Mario Chard "'You will be spatchcocked / your sternum, your backbone scissored out,' Elizabeth Garcia's remarkable collection Resurrected Body begins. Clear-eyed and insightful, these startlingly honest poems examine what it means to be mother, writer, self, a body's archive of memory, when even 'firmament' offers no safe ground, but 'any moment / could swallow you.' Still, through language, the natural world, and human connection, 'the wide tent of each other,' these poems seek a way 'to learn // what resurrection must look like, / how lightning's bright erasures / can bring you to the brink, and allow you, / again and again, to start over.'" - Sandra Meek "In Resurrected Body, Elizabeth Garcia offers us one vivid version of what to expect from parenthood based on the experiences of both mother and child. 'Here I bear every imaginable load,' she writes in 'Motherhood as Safety Coffin.' These poems weave together God, Mary Shelley, autobiography, and more, and the results are intriguing and surprising. I have no doubt that you will, like me, find yourself mesmerized by the stories and voices in this book." - Katie Manning