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.