Poetry. PLAYING BODIES is a work in poetry and paintings by Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw. The series of fifty-two paintings by Shaw and fifty-two poems by Perelman reflect an intensely united collaboration. In describing the project, Shaw writes: "Exploring the space where terror and comfort, pleasure and pain are overlaid, I have done a series of 52 paintings.The 52 paintings as a whole do not form any narrative progression; instead, each painting poses a variation of some basic questions: is this play or struggle, or both at once, who is carrying whom, who is in control?" Bob Perelman writes: "I tried to do justice to the exhilarating and terrifying primal meanings that Isee the paintings display with such passionate wit."