Animal Magnetism
InAnimal Magnetism,Kim Roberts investigates, in language as rich, complex, and nuanced as the body itself, the unlit interiors of physical and emotional anatomy...Borne out of the author's own deep searching following a serious illness, each poem, each line, feels deeply earned...While these poems are beautifully-made and sometimes funny or painful, they are also brimming with information...Here the narrator functions as a trained docent, leading the reader on a private tour of the wonders and curiosities that document the early explorations of medicine and anatomy, in which the inner workings of the human body were first opened to the human eye. --Debra Marquart