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To the Person Who Tends My Body moves beyond our shared foundation of grief and fallibility in search of the tenderness, humor, and courage that just might make us more than the sum of our parts. From shacks and mortuaries to highways and television screens, these poems also seek to reexamine the strange wall separating reality and imagination in the hopes that it might be less a wall than a veil.

To the Person Who Tends My Body moves beyond our shared foundation of grief and fallibility in search of the tenderness, humor, and courage that just might make us more than the sum of our parts. From shacks and mortuaries to highways and television screens, these poems also seek to reexamine the strange wall separating reality and imagination in the hopes that it might be less a wall than a veil.

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Inquisitive and insightful, the poems of Michael Meyerhofer aren't afraid to go to those weird places other poets fear or dismiss. There's equal parts humor and pathos in this poet, and he brings us poems that regard the world with a certain lyric skepticism that, nonetheless, wants to believe in all those old-fashioned ancient truths--beauty, harmony, peace. Meyerhofer's poems are much more durable than the 'Cardboard Urn' of this collection'...

ODE TO DOGSI am tired of hearing about dogsused as metaphors for the uncivilized.Imagine a world in which humanspossessed at least twenty timesas many olfactory receptors, able to distinguish the tang of cancerrising musk-like from the bedsheetsnext to a smoldering ash tray, able to detect that one drop of bloodin every five quarts of water, to know what you did last nightno matter how many timesyou soap-scrubbed the evidence.It does not take ...

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