Body Parts: A Collection of Poems About Aging

Janet Cameron Hoult
Outskirts Press (2010)
ISBN 9781432755980
Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (08/10)

 

The perils of aging are many:  hair loss, eyesight loss, hearing loss, tooth loss. We have a choice, a choice of wallowing in depression over it or accepting the process and making light of it.  Janet Cameron Hoult presents to us a compilation of poetry that addresses aging issues, in both serious and humorous ways. 

Reading through “Body Parts,” I discovered that at least there is one other husband that misunderstood “tapas” and heard it as “topless.”  It certainly gave me a chuckle, as did many of Hoult’s poems.

Repair Job

Kegels and exercise
Don't do the trick.
So, I'm off to the doctor
To get myself fixed.

A snip and a tug,
A mend of a tear.
My doctor has done it.
She’s made a repair!

So tell me a joke
Something funny and rare.
I don’t leak anymore
I can laugh without care!

Hoult’s musings are close to the heart to all of us that are heading toward or are in the aging process.  Personally, I enjoyed all her pieces and could relate to them. I encourage anyone that is in the aging process to consider reading Hoult’s work. “Body Parts: A Collection of Poems About Aging.”  It will give you the sense you aren't alone saying "Say What????"

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