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Body Eclectic

Patrice Redd Vecchione. Henry Holt & Company, $16.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-6935-8

The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems, edited by Patrice Vecchione, explores the human body from the inside out with more than 70 poems, beginning with an excerpt from Walt Whitman's ""I Sing the Body Electric"" and including such poets as Pablo Neruda, Diane Ackerman, May Swenson and Sherman Alexie, and covering everything from the body as a whole to the penis, the hands, or vagina in particular. Brief biographies of the contributors conclude the volume. (May)