Blake Marcelle's poetry takes up the difficult task of cataloging the rages and forgivenesses of the body. With a furtive attention to detail they explore a topography of personal and cultural memory layering the sacred and the profane the honest and the apocryphal the wild and the ordinary willing and inventing a new freedom. AS FOR THE BODY is a fearless full-lunged big-hearted debut. -MINDY NETTIFEE