{"product_id":"whats-written-on-the-body-paperback","title":"What's Written on the Body - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Pereira\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's rare in contemporary poetry to find a book as boldly celebratory as Peter Pereira's new collection.\"--Chase Twichell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhat's Written on the Body, \u003c\/i\u003e physician Peter Pereira explores the body, medicine, wordplay, gardening, family, and domestic gay life, often drawing from his experience as a community clinic doctor in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn avid Scrabble player, anagrammer, and cruciverbalist, Pereira opens the collection with a delightful selection of wordplay poems, as a counterpoint to poems recounting the day-to-day practice of a family physician, from suturing a wound in the ER to extracting an eraser from a child's nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Body Talk\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eDo you hear how the scalp claps?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow the heart contains the earth, yet\u003cbr\u003eis also a hater? How saliva\u003cbr\u003eis lava, while testicles sit elect\u003cbr\u003efor their slice test . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Pereira\u003c\/b\u003e is a family physician in Seattle, where he cares for an urban, underserved population of immigrants, refugees, housing project residents, and the elderly. His first book won the Hayden Carruth Award, and his individual poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including \u003ci\u003ePoetry, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Weekend, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the American Medical Association.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.99 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771614560544,"sku":"9781556592522","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/615e16710fbb0fc42555c5827fb8c776.webp?v=1780389581","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/whats-written-on-the-body-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}