Torres, Edwin (ed.): The Body in Language: An Anthology

The Body in Language: An Anthology Edited by Edwin Torres (Counterpath Press, paperback) Publication Date: March 31, 2019 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Art. Film. Music. Edited by Edwin Torres. The question of the body's place in language has enduring significance. Is there a more equivalent imprint on the language of our life than our own bodies? THE BODY IN LANGUAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY collects an extraordinary range of voices—including writers, artists, performers, and healing practitioners—to present new perspectives on the body in art by exploring the body in language. The selves/cells we release in creativity embody our fundamental being. Can we activate our connective senses to better understand how others make others? "Like a body wholly body but no such thing—because it is numerous and luminous and cool and uncontained, because it is so all over and all not in between the elements that it is elemental—THE BODY IN LANGUAGE veers une