β Scribed by Melissa Kwasny
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven seriesοΏ½one of linked prose poems called οΏ½Another Letter to the SoulοΏ½ 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 after death. The poems in οΏ½Another Letter to the SoulοΏ½ point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us.
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