A poetry collection by morgan leigh plessner
Published on March 24, 2020.
PLACES TO BUY
An all-American road trip down the path of reclamation.
Body of the Moon charts the moments of everyday clarity that are interspersed between the unpleasant and the mundane. By exploring how we reconcile with ourselves and reclaim what we hate, the poems included in this collection prove that the body and mind are interlinked.
Throughout Plessner’s prose, an unreliable and self-destructive narrator travels a well-worn path of contemplation—figuring out how the body can be a place of containment, artifact, and record—as well as an escape. By traveling across America and inhabiting its liminal spaces, the narrator uncovers the legacies and myths we take on.
Story arcs act as parables, so that when the mind starts rearranging reality, the body is the only thing left to remind us that we’re real.
About the Poet
Morgan Leigh Plessner has her MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire. She currently works as an editor for a media outlet and loves every minute of it. In her spare time, she bakes bread, wears denim on denim, blows kisses to the moon, and watches 80s action movies.