WBC Launches ‘A Body Made of Eyes: Contemplative Essays’
A New Collection Now Available for Preorder
Wisdom Body Collective is excited to announce the arrival of our second full-length book, Marlie McGovern’s A Body Made of Eyes: Contemplative Essays. This thoughtful, expansive collection of essays explores the intimacies of reading and writing as contemplative acts.
What People Are Saying:
I love these — they are poems, meditations, philosophies, the great art of the pensée, given new life.
— Andrew Schelling, author of Tracks Along the Left Coast
As readers, we follow the horseshoe crab’s transformation, the river’s energy beneath our skin, the chickadee’s spring vocabulary and witness the “space between breaths, between thoughts.”
— Michelle Naka Pierce, author of Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
McGovern’s essays startle the reader with their imagery and voice, but they also offer a practice of reading and writing that I will simply call exemplary.
— J’Lyn Chapman, author of To Limn/Lying In
About the Author
Marlie McGovern is an essayist and educator. Her practiced-based research in embodied poetics explores the ways in which writing, meditation, and contemplative movement can help to reveal and realize innate creative potential. She teaches critical and creative writing in the college classroom and offers individual instruction in meditation.
This copper-foiled, 58-page beautiful hardcover is now available for pre-order through Kickstarter. With a limited print run of 100 copies, only 75 will be available to the public. Preorder your copy now — the fundraiser ends on 10/12.
