Beautiful Flesh A Body of Essays / edited by Stephanie G'Schwind.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

G'Schwind, Stephanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2017]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Field notes on hair / Vicki Weiqi Yang

Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot

The aquatic ape hypothesis, or how I learned to love my paranasal sinuses / Dinty W. Moore

Looking back / Danielle R. Spencer

Elective / Peggy Shinner

Speaking of ears and savagery / Steven Church

A living structure / Lupe Linares

The spine / Sarah Rose Etter

Drawing a breath / Kaity Teer

Shock to the heart, or : a primer on the practical applications of electricity / Katherine E. Standefer

Blood type / Samantha Simpson

Mos teutonicus / Matthew Ferrence

Wolf biter / Sarah Viren

The private life of skin / Hester Kaplan

Beautiful flesh / Wendy Call

The belly of desire / Sarah K. Lenz

The population of me / Jody Mace

Pre-vasectomy instruction no. 7 / Matt Roberts

Taking shape / Amy Butcher

Once, then / Angela Pelster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635587

1885635583

OCLC:

978295442