What follows is the ninth in J. A. Tyler’s full-press of Subito Press, a series of reviews appearing at [PANK] over the course of 2012, covering every title available from Subito Press. J. A. Tyler’s previous full-press reviews have covered every title from Calamari Press (at Big Other) and from Publishing Genius Press (at Mud Luscious Press).

Comprised of five long and fairly complex poems of varying styles, Andy Frazee’s The Body, The Rooms is a book of poetry built to uncover how language is a body, and the way in which readers mirror those instinctual thoughts we can never contain.

from ‘Cartography’:

We or the poet and reader are alone in their poem. Bodies or pages separate. Language is both the separator and that which bridges the lapse of separation.

The Body, The Rooms is as philosophical as it is poetic- Frazee simultaneously exploring the way in which our body is a vessel for the humanity that lies within and establishing the insignificance of language as only one attempt to capture one piece of a larger moment that is always changing: a reader in the moment of reading.

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