Seeing the Body in the New & Noteworthy at The New York Times / by Rachel Griffiths

SEEING THE BODY: Poems, by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. (Norton, $26.95.) Mixing poems and original photographs, Griffiths’s fifth book grapples with the long-ago death of her mother and its effect on Griffiths herself, “a woman whose spirit is both emaciated and exhilarated in the face of monumental loss.”