Description
A cohesive and richly textured book, This Flesh These Words studies humanity’s restless spiritual hunger as expressed through different cultural traditions. It offers poems that arise from grieving yet celebrate life and the ability of language to sustain friendship and community.
About the author
Sharon H. Nelson is the author of eight books and four chapbooks of poems and of essays, political analyses, literary reviews, and scripts. A native of Montreal, she has worked as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and has also co-authored computer science texts. She lectures across Canada on the arts and feminist issues. Several of her plays have been produced and her poems have been used as music for choreographies.
