Reconnecting the Mind and Body: An Interview with Gayle Brandeis about “Drawing Breath” in Chicago Review of Books
How many of us appreciate the miracle that is our breath? Appreciate our bodies—our whole bodies, including our curves, our folds, our very flesh? What do breath, the body, and our feelings about both, have to do with writing anyway? If you were to ask Gayle Brandeis what breath and the body have to do with her own work, I imagine she’d say “everything.”