Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit

Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit by Elaine Sorrentino offers readers a first collection of poems full of candid self-observation, tenderness for a world almost lost, and good humor. In poems like her hilarious post-Covid elegy, "A Moment of Silence for the Salad Bar", or through the closing line of her title poem, in which the speaker announces "I didn't come to watch," Sorrentino invites readers to participate in love in its many forms and walk life's path with joy, even when it is deepl...