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New Advance Praise for The Third Body

 

These are quiet yet intense poems celebrating family life, making the domestic universal and yet conversely, making external observations personal…And what could be more fresh than an American male voice in the new century singing stalwartly about happiness and love? I am totally captivated and convinced!

                                 Marilyn Chin, author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow

 

 

Jeff Knorr's The Third Body flexes considerable centripetal muscle, pulling every earthly thing within the poet's ample embrace.  Here, the "wonder of . . . things" brims within beloved wife and son and aging dog, within an ancient river, quiet horses, and the autumn orchard.  Knorr evokes a world so ripe its fullness bursts into rot or flame, a cycle of richness forever on the verge.  This welcome collection's lesson, its "terrible secret," is the knowledge that to love is to consume and to be consumed, a merging of bodies both enthralling and redemptive.  This is a strong, honest, and mature book.

 

                                 Kevin Stein, author of American   Ghost Roses

                                            and Illinois Poet Laureate 

 

 

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