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Of Flesh & Spirit

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I have returned from a reading by Wang Ping (along with George Kalamaras) and I was highly impressed by her work. As a woman, I find that I can identify with her words of womanhood and restriction. I look forward to delving into her world of prose, although she gives a taste of it in this collection by means of prose-poems.

I first picked up Of Flesh and Spirit at a used bookstore in South Dakota when I was 15 years old. I read it, and liked much of it, but didn't really get it.

Then, last summer (at age 19), I got it off the shelf to read, and an entirely new world unfolded.

My favorite quote, which I remind myself of all the time, is from "Splintered Eye" on page46.

Real pain is unspeakable.
If it can be described or talked about,
it's no longer real.