This Earth, This Body

Arlene Iris Distler's new book of poems, sings the body electric. Love, death and the pulse of daily life conjoin here in the deep presence of Distler's care. She is a communal poet drawing us in with imagistic language and sensuous dance. Terry Hauptman is a poet and painter. Her seventh volume of poetry, will be out in Fall of 2022. In poet Arlene Iris Distler celebrates the breadth of experience. "The day bud's last flower," she writes, "is all I need of the hour." With wonder and satisfaction she composes poems of memories, childhood, illness, death, and sex. is a Vermont late-summer harvest, the poems lit by the inspiration of shortening days and Distler's splendid revelations. Molly Peacock, author of Reading Distler's collection is like poring over unmatted, unframed watercolor sketches. Each poem is a picture on the surface, yet the pigment seeps deep and the images float beyond the margins. Charles Butterfield is a retired professor of Biology and English. His poems have appeared in small-press journals and in his books, and Field