O Body of Bliss

<p>This collection is so damn good I want to quote from every exploration inside every poem: food family love tragedy humor religion and death Certo's O Body of Bliss possesses an incisive immediacy replete with surprises that grabs and won't let go: Who wasn't shoved in a room by Boy Who Would Grow Up/To Be Rapist his hands at work while her friends picked the lock? Storyteller and lyric poet all in one in Ode to the Airbnb she asks: isn't it/ sacred to be someone else stepping over/ the threshold into their skin into the history/ of closets into the wall spaces between framed/ photos bound in their hall light their wanderings/ and absences their quilts and smells the lives/ of the hearth and the lock on the storage room. The range of her conjuring coupled with her linguistic gifts leave me awestruck.</p><p>  - Roger Weingarten</p>