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Season of the body : essays / Brenda Miller.
Van Pelt Library CT275.M51435 A3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Brenda, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miller, Brenda, 1959-.
- Miller, Brenda.
- Miller, Brenda, 1959---Travel.
- Travel.
- Masseurs--United States--Biography.
- Masseurs.
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- Jews.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- In this remarkable debut collection -- essentially a memoir in essay form -- Brenda Miller creates an autobiography that locates her body as its central reference point. Single and unable to bear children of her own, Miller details a life in relationship to the extended human family, a journey that traverses realms physical, emotional, and spiritual.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Body Language 3
- Needlepoint 11
- The Names 21
- A Dharma Name 33
- Basha Leah 37
- Next Year in Jerusalem 57
- How to Meditate 75
- A Thousand Buddhas 87
- Sean Falling 99
- Split 107
- Artifacts 111
- Infant Ward 117
- A Brief History of Sex 129
- Prologue to a Sad Spring 137
- The Date 141
- Grape Hyacinths 153
- Time With Children 155
- A Field Guide to the Desert 165
- Gourd 171
- Kimono 173
- Season of the Body 189.
- ISBN:
- 188933068X
- 1889330698
- OCLC:
- 47056422
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