Broadsided March 1, 2010: "Dear Body"

from "Dear Body"
Poem by Dan Rosenberg and art by Ira Joel Haber

Though I don't think of you as separate
you thread your screws into me anyway.
Tender body, what basic state are you in? .....

The Collaborators:
Writer Dan Rosenberg teaches at Augustana College. His poems have appeared in Conduit, CutBank, 6X6, and elsewhere. His first chapbook, A Thread of Hands, is forthcoming from Tilt Press. This poem was an attempt to exorcise the word "body," which kept cropping up, from his poems. It failed.
Artist Ira Joel Haber iis a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher who sometimes writes poetry and movie reviews. His work has been seen in numerous solo and group shows both in USA and Europe. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Hirshorn Museum and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2004 he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.

Collaborators' Q&A:
think I'm falling in love with the shimmery figure - which I'm thinking of as a "ghost of a body" - floating on the top. I'm also thrilled by how literally Ira chose to take the word "body" - how he is showing the stuff, the gunk, of the human form, particularly since "body" tends to operate more abstractly in the poem. ..
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Wanted: Submissions for the 7th Switcheroo:
Writers: We've posted a piece of art titled "Turn" by Julie Evanoff on our site, and we'd like to see what it evokes for you, in a literary sense. The usual Broadsided guidelines for submissions apply. Your response need not be literal--you may take off in any tangent the work suggests. However, the art and writing must, together, work to create a greater piece. The editors will choose a piece of writing from the submissions to be Broadsided April 1, 2010. Deadline for submissions: March 5, 2010.
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Broadsided March 1, 2010: "Dear Body"