With few exceptions, 'The Space My Body Fills' consists of a selection of poems written during the late sixties and early seventies. Etta Blum writes with an unequaled grace and precision as she grapples with experience in an effort to comprehend an unpredictable and chaotic world. Here in this superior volume the emotional and the intellectual are integrated in intricate images that span the arts, nature, and the dark realities of illness, death, and loneliness. Angels, devils, and saints are equally envisioned, and the poet's most intimate experiences are poignantly revealed as in "The Distance Lengthened."--