A Work of Body: A Body of Work by Sharon Neubauer

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Sharon Neubauer transports readers on a journey with breath through nature and time in her poetry chapbook debut, Work of Body: Body of Work. Travel among the cumulous clouds formed by breath exhaled in “cold, open air” and wonder “Do breaths recognize each other? / Particles of friends once joined / now separated, now merging / before splitting again …” then tread softly to the river’s edge “for I am but a facet of you / Always moving and reflecting …” Sprinkled with themes of “connection to all” through the act of breathing itself, observing and transforming internally “I grew my heart / into my neck and shoulders …” and across the universe “You were dirt and you were stardust … / you were carried across the sea / finding family / …. Remember all you have been … Please Remember.” Sprinkled with whimsical pieces as in Verbification “My shoulders have shouldered all they should shoulder …” and Good Morning “Good morning thing that is wrong with me though I can’t quite put my finger on it / Good morning guesser of what is wrong with me … ” This is a journey you will want to come back to and revisit again and again, glimpsing something you may not have seen the first time on your path.
–Kelly Bradley, Author of love, loss and the enormity of it all
 
From the very first lines, “Breath knocks/at nostril doors” the reader of Neubauer’s book is gifted with poems of humor, sensitivity, wisdom, and grace. The author’s years of learning and teaching yoga are here, in wise words about breath, body, and mind, along with a “weight of attention” to language. These poems remind us to pay attention, to be gentle with ourselves, to laugh. For doesn’t mastery include play? Neubauer proves that it must.
–Ann Quinn, author of Final Deployment

 

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A Work of Body: A Body of Work 

by Sharon Neubauer

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979-8-88838-270-7

2023

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The poems in Work of Body: Body of Work  slow down time and ask us to appreciate the artistry and magnitude of the smallest Work of Body such as a single breath or a spinal adjustment. As the poems progress the Works of Body grow larger and help us recognize our small connection to larger Bodies such as a Body of Water or a World Body. With physicality, poignancy and humor, Work of Body: Body of Work  explores the blurry lines where each Body begins and ends and invites us to share in the insights that arise from the inquiry.
Sharon Neubauer is a poet and Yoga instructor and the owner of Opus Yoga in Gaithersburg, MD. She holds a degree in English from Dickinson College and has been quietly writing poems for decades. This book represents a convergence of selves: English major, theatre actor  and administrator, and 25 years of Yoga study and teaching. opusyogastudio.com

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