Peopled with casualties of colonizing desires, Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions revises mythical, historical and personal narratives. Penelope regrets her career choice; a Syrian child washes ashore; the greeting card industry peddles innocence. 
Personal poems scrutinize time’s implacable flow, chart the body in time, its mortality, its capricious heart.  The struggle to find grace-notes of love and beauty in our present historical moment animates these poems: tough and lyrical, they resonate with authentic feeling, cultural urgency, and a quirky sense of humour.
The poet explores the body’s unanswered questions of aging and mortality, its desires and defeats. The body In community, in friendship, as citizen, as witness. The body in myth and history, as repository of memory:
​What are Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions?

Our bodies' ​
​unanswered Questions

REVIEWS: 
Lorna Crozier: 
 "These poems are a call to empathy, a call to wonder. Written in the voice of someone who has thought and thought again about the past, they become part of a reader's own search for meaning and consolation. With the sure notes of a master poet, they sing their way into your heart." 

Sandra Ridley:
"The poems in Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions glisten like stars above a Dark Sky Preserve. Each burns an afterimage into the mind’s eye. With radiant grace, Donawa gives us fiery calls to action, affirming revelations, and heart-rending susurrations. In a world rife with inequity and injustice, this exquisite collection is the kind of beacon we need: unwavering, uncompromising, and fiercely wise."

Thomas Trofimuk - Alberta Views Mar 2022:
https://albertaviews.ca/bodies-unanswered-questions/
 "...this collection, is a gorgeous distillation of a life that asks us to consider the question “so, what are the important moments of your life? It is a stunning piece that moves from earliest memory to “season’s last berries....Wendy Donawa is a poet at the height of her powers, firing on all cylinders." 

Pam Porter:  https://www.recoveringwords.com/site/guest-poetry-blog-12-pamela-porter-features-canadian-poet-wendy-donawa-part-two-of-two#more-7158
"Wendy Donawa is a force. Her voice ranges from the tongue-in-cheek to calls for justice, to the careful attention required to describe two hawks mating high in the air. She recognizes the heart-stopping beauty of it all."

Angeline Schellenberg:
Freefall: Vol. XXXII, Number 1, Spring 2022, p.105-106
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-wendy-donawas-our-bodies-unanswered-questions/
"..a visceral, at times playful, coming to grips with personal pain and communal grief."

 To purchase: Order from your independent bookseller, from Frontenac House Publishers <https://www.frontenachouse.com>,
​or from Wendy Donawa (click on contact) 

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