New BOOK

My collection of poetry Life in the Body is forthcoming from Los Angeles Press.

Life in the Body addresses exactly that. Rosalind Brenner reveals in many of the poems, unflinching consciousness of her own aging body, with grace, humor, and self-deprecation. She admonishes herself and her reader to look more deeply than the moldering flesh. She takes us on a journey through her own and her family’s scars that remain from choices made in youth, as well as the deep wounds of immigration and bigotry. She takes a resolute, sometimes personal look at how we humans hurt each other. War, gun violence, disease, relationships, and redemption through compassion, are subjects that fill these poems. Memory plays tricks on us, and we see that. And within these pages as well, we find the joy of being a grandparent, the mixed experiences of mothering, and in particular, absolute wonder at the grandeur of nature. Life in the Body is about her world, our world. The poems strike a chord of recognition. The poems convey the author’s passion for making beauty, art and poetry, in a sometimes painful, always glorious life.