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Deborah Landau's Uses of the Body presents the very specific challenges of womanhood. Her poems address what it means to be alive-right now-in a female body. She fills her poetry with compelling nouns: wine glasses, bridal gowns, and "books and teacups and ghosts." And what ghosts: underneath evocative images and poetic play, there's a moving, yearning mysticism. From "Mr and Mrs End of Suffering": The uses of the body are wake up. The uses of the...