Places I've taken my body : essays
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Published
New York : Persea Books, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 19 cm
Status
Waterloo Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
818 BRO
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818 BRO
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Published
New York : Persea Books, [2020].
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."
Description
"In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna, Italy. Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human-flawed, potent, feeling"--,Provided by publisher.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift from the estate of John "Jack" A. Petsche.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brown, M. M. (2020). Places I've taken my body: essays . Persea Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Molly McCully, 1991-. 2020. Places I've Taken My Body: Essays. Persea Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Molly McCully, 1991-. Places I've Taken My Body: Essays Persea Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brown, Molly McCully. Places I've Taken My Body: Essays Persea Books, 2020.
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