Whose Body

'Whose Body Abounds With Questions' Writes Donald Levering. 'The Title Implies The Question Whose Body Is This That I Occupy Whose Body Is This That Feels Love Or Pleasure Or Suffers So Self-Importantly? The Infant Heard Sobbing Next Door Or The Tortured Political Prisoner Are Their Bodies Also Not Mine? Another Side Of The Question Is Who Is This 'I' That Occupies A Certain Body At A Certain Time? Does It Maintain An Identify Apart From The Body It Inhabits This Body With Its Specific Scars Warm Places Habits And Infirmities? Instead Of Supplying Answers I Hope That The Poems Give Flesh And Body To The Enigmas. As I Was Writing I Imagined A Strict Zen Master Looking Over My Shoulder Ready To Whap This Body With A Stick If A Poem Started To Fall Asleep.'