Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series--one of linked prose poems called "Another Letter to the Soul" and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history.
Melissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence...
Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series--one of linked prose poems called "Another Letter to the Soul" and ...