Beautiful Flesh : a body of essays
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Contributors
G'Schwind, Stephanie, editor.
Published
Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2017].
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Published
Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2017].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).
Description
"Selected from among the country's leading literary publications--Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Creative Nonfiction, the Georgia Review, the Normal School, Prairie Schooner, and others--Beautiful Flesh gathers nineteen works of creative nonfiction to build a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, blood, bones, brain, ears, eyes, feet, hair, hands, heart, knees, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens. The title is drawn from Wendy Call's contribution, "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." Other essays include Dinty W. Moore's "The Aquatic Ape," an exploration of the curious design and necessity of sinuses; Katherine E. Standefer's "Shock to the Heart, Or: A Primer on the Practical Applications of Electricity," a modular essay on the author's internal cardiac defibrillator and the nature of electricity; Matt Roberts's "Vasectomy Instruction No. 7," which considers the various reasons for and implications of surgically severing and sealing the vas deferens; Lupe Linares's "A Living Structure," concerning teeth and the "small mistakes that accumulate over time and add up to a loss that we can never forget"; and Peggy Shinner's "Elective," which examines the author's own experience with rhinoplasty and cultural considerations of the "Jewish nose." Echoing the myriad shapes, sizes, abilities, and types of the human body, these essays showcase the many forms of the genre"--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
G'Schwind, S. (2017). Beautiful Flesh: a body of essays . The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)G'Schwind, Stephanie. 2017. Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays. The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)G'Schwind, Stephanie. Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)G'Schwind, Stephanie. Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2017.
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