What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Books We’ve Loved, our editorial board members and invited poets reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the book and an excerpt from the essay. 
It’s not magic; it isn’t a trick.
Every breath is a resurrection.
And when we hear the poem
That is the world, when our eyes
Gaze at the beloved’s body,
We’re reborn in all the sacred parts
Of our own bodies:
The heart
Contracts, the brain
Releases its shower
Of sparks,
And the tear
Embarks on its pilgrimage
Down the cheek to meet
The smiling mouth.       
from the book CONCERNING THE BOOK THAT IS THE BODY OF THE BELOVED / Copper Canyon Press
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Eric James Cruz on Gregory Orr's Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

"There is a word that stands out to me now: dimensionality. It lives as hope in these poems, a much-needed balm in the face of our current social climate. Most breathtaking is the invitation Orr leaves for the reader: to keep seeking in the face of loss. These poems affirm to me that I exist in both sorrow and joy. I live in the tension of being both unmoored and tethered to the world."
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Hanan Issa is Wales' First Muslim National Poet

"Issa is of mixed heritage, and said that 'sitting with one foot on either shore of different heritages really does make you have a greater, deeper understanding of different views, different ways of living and different languages.'....Over her term, Issa aims to introduce more people to the ancient Welsh poetic form of cynghanedd, as well as encourage 'more people to engage with and appreciate poetry.'"

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