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The title poem of Arlene Iris Distler's This Earth, This Body is drawn from “Sisters-A Love Poem,” which appears in the center of this wonderful, beautifully crafted collection by a Brattleboro writer.
The poem is one of a series portraying Distler's family (the “family/I was born into, a puzzle from the first/as much as I surely puzzled them”), and it deftly juxtaposes tenderness, grief, and difficult adult relationships.
As I start my car in the morning to drive to work, I hear in my head the opening measures of the Prelude of the Bach D minor cello suite. Pushing the waiting CD into its slot, I hear those measures in the same key that played in my...
