ReviewCati Porter'sThe Body, Like Bread is a marriage of Epicureanism and Eroticism, a dance betweenrenunciation and desire. One of her poems boldly proclaims, "Every PoemIs Not a Love Poem," but that isn't true of this collection. Everysingle poem in this collection explores desire, "the web-nest at thestem, the marble of it, glistening."--Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other PoemsThese are aching poems, mouth-watering poems, thrumming with everyhunger the body can hold. These poems hold the meat and fruit and breadyou would find in a fever dream--sensual and satisfying and strange. WithThe Body, Like Bread, Cati Porter has delivered a breathtaking feast.--Gayle Brandeis, author ofDelta Girls, Self Storage, The Book of Dead Birds, and Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who WriteAbout the AuthorCati Porter is a poet, editor, and community arts facilitator. She is founder and editor of literary journals Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and Inlandia: A LiteraryJourney, and the author of My Skies of Small Horses (WordTech, 2016) Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), the chapbooks small fruit songs (Pudding House,2008), (al)most delicious (dancing girl press, 2010), The Way Things Move The Dark (dancing girl press, 2013), what Desire makes of us (e-chapbook with Ahadada Books, 2011; in print from dancinggirl press, 2015) with illustrations by her sister Amy Payne, and The Body, Like Bread (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her third full-length collection, The Body at a Loss, is forthcoming in 2019 from CavanKerry Press. She lives with her family in California's Inland Empire, where she is the Executive Director ofthe Inlandia Institute, a regionally-focused literary nonprofit.