An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of lifeIn his seventh decade and seventh full length collection poet James P Lenfestey dazzles with a suite of odes to parts of the bodyheart belly ankle teeth ears and moreamp8212and astonishment at the powers of language quotthe sound of amp8216nquot our ancient alphabet amp8220the terror of publishingamp8221 Known for his exuberant Chinesestyle lyrics now inspired by Nerudaamp8217s cascadingamp160Elemental Odes Lenfestey praises Hewlett and Packard Bruce Springsteen amp8220the language of crowamp8221 fruit flies and cabbages while recalling the amp8220forgiveness of the Catbirdamp8221 and random acts of kindness all with his superb ear for sound rhythm and leaping figurative languageRhythmic jovial and eminently approachable this collection embraces the Cetacean mind and the fearless left hand Here Lenfestey writes love songs to the world amp8220as it really is bizarro curious inelegant unclean unfaithful filled with delightamp8221
