In a Body
In a Body by Emily Hockaday, published by Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp on October 13, 2023, is a poetry collection consisting of 86 pages in English. The poems transport readers to various natural settings, including Fire Island dunes and Jamaica Bay marshes, while exploring the intricate connections between the human experience and the surrounding ecosystems. Hockaday’s work invites reflection on themes such as chronic pain, ecology, and the complexities of parenting, all through a feminist and ecopoetic lens.
Readers will find that Hockaday’s speaker navigates a range of experiences, from moments of stillness to the examination of life’s fragilities. The collection addresses the isolation that chronic fatigue and pain can impose, while also questioning whether nature can foster connection amidst such challenges. By examining the relationships between plant, animal, and geological bodies, In a Body seeks to understand humanity’s place in the universe, making it a thoughtful exploration of both personal and environmental themes.
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The poems in In a Body will take you to Fire Island dunes, Jamaica Bay marshes, inside a glacial moraine, and beneath the forest to the mycorrhizal network. Emily Hockaday’s speaker is as likely to be pouring alcohol down a drain as inspecting horseshoe crab eggs with her child. With her, we learn to be still and to look at the micro. We walk the line between “tame/and not tame.” Through a feminist and ecopoetic lens, Hockaday considers the ecosystem of the ill body contrasted with the ecosystems around us. In addition to themes of ecology and chronic pain, this collection touches on parenting, grief, sobriety, and the urban environment. How do chronic fatigue and pain isolate a person? Can nature provide connection in the face of this isolation? These are questions In a Body strives to answer. This collection looks to plant, fungal, animal, and geological bodies as a way of trying to understand humanity’s place in the Universe while also grappling with chronic illness.
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