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Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
Brian Blanchfield
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Description for Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics -Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br'er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus-that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life's rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, subject positions in American labor (not excluding academia), and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, central-piedmont North Carolina.
Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics -Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br'er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus-that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life's rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, subject positions in American labor (not excluding academia), and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, central-piedmont North Carolina.
Product Details
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781937658458
SKU
V9781937658458
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About Brian Blanchfield
Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry, Not Even Then and A Several World, which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award and was a longlist finalist for the National Book Award. His book of essays, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, was published in April 2016. Recent essays and poems have appeared in Harper's, BOMB, Guernica, The Nation, Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir and the Finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award in Nonfiction A collection of idiosyncratic, candid, devastating essays...it's the most brilliant book I've read in years. Anyone who has been amazed (and rightly so) by Maggie ... Read more