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Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
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Description for Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Paperback. Editor(s): G'Schwind, Stephanie. BIC Classification: DNF; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens. The title is drawn from Wendy Call’s essay “Beautiful Flesh,” a meditation on the pancreas: “gorgeously ugly, hideously beautiful: crimson globes embedded in a pinkish-tan oval, all nestled on a bed of cabbage-olive green, spun through with gossamer gold.” ... Read more
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens. The title is drawn from Wendy Call’s essay “Beautiful Flesh,” a meditation on the pancreas: “gorgeously ugly, hideously beautiful: crimson globes embedded in a pinkish-tan oval, all nestled on a bed of cabbage-olive green, spun through with gossamer gold.” ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Center for Literary Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9781885635570
SKU
V9781885635570
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About
Stephanie G’Schwind is the editor of Colorado Review and the director of the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. She edited the anthology Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood and is the series editor for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and co-editor, with Donald Revell, of the Mountain West Poetry Series. She has worked in the publishing industry (literary, scholarly, ... Read more
Reviews for Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
"[A] delightful anthology, one that anyone might use as a study of the essay as a form. . . . these essays are successful in accomplishing what G’Schwind said she hoped to accomplish, that they would not summon 'Frankenstein’s voice,' but instead becomes something united through 'hearts and bones.' For all the reasons above—that it is through our bodies we experience stories and that our bodies ... Read more