FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson | "The "flickering body" in Christopher Sindt"s THE BODIES is luminous and personal, and serves as a guide. We are taken passionately into a world of disappearing wetlands, herons, oaks, apple grasses, dunes, and sea figs, beyond clarity and certainty. These poems are meditative histories of the natural world. They leap into the wild of earth, of feeling, and of language." -JANE MILLER | "Impossible perhaps-he thinks-to read the world, to sing it, to offer up its names. Yet, as Christopher Sindt reminds us in this probing and often startling collection, the world, that world, is all that is the case, with its Dantescan windings and sudden, Ovidian transformations. His encounters with it here, at once lyric and elegiac, tacitly argue that this "temporary world" might just be enough." -MICHAEL PALMER | "Tracing the intertidal circuits of story and understory, of body and soul, of land and sea, Christopher Sindt"s sensitive and intelligent...