Life in the Body

Rosalind Brenner’s latest book, Life in the Body, records the naked eye in the act of seeing and touching. She celebrates years that accumulate booth sensory and cerebral knowledge. The poems marvel at life even as they stare down age and death. Her words ache for the world, its terrors, its beauty and joys, nature’s gifts. Trying to live in the world and still be grateful and compassionate, her themes and stories offer echoes we can hear and watch in a pond, echoes in an intimate, generational diaspora. We are led into a raw, well lived life that teaches us to look at our own lives. In this work, the reader finds the beauty and wisdom of a poet who sees and speaks in gifted language with clarity, maturity, and poise.

Published in 2024 by Rosalind Brenner

PRAISE:

Brenner offers echoes we can hear and watch in a pond; echoes in an intimate, generational diaspora. Reading her lines draws you into a raw, well-lived life, honoring both her joy and her struggles. She waves us into a quiet room, letting us light candles to our own struggles. She waves us in to offer hope. From grandma’s laughter to rock and roll lived in real time. From robins flirting behind her house to scarred teen-aged hearts. This work offers powerful lines, beauty, and wisdom.
— Doug Johnson Ph.D.

Rosalind Brenner is a canny and beautiful poet, who lays bare her heart and history in order to arrive at the truth for us all.
— Lynn Melnick

From page to page, we move across and through a spectrum of women’s lives—until we come to a place of stillness. These poems offer realness. These poems offer hope.
— Christina M. Rau