Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Brown, Molly McCully

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a...
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Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Brown, Molly McCully

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

$65.93

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

$65.93
Author: Molly McCully Brown
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of--indeed, in response to--physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna, Italy. Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human--flawed, potent, feeling.

Author: Molly McCully Brown
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 06/02/2020
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780892555130


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2020 pg. 63
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2020
Foreword 04/26/2020
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 8
Library Journal 06/05/2020 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 06/16/2020

About the Author
Brown, Molly McCully: - Molly McCully Brown received her MFA from the University of Mississippi, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Simon's Rock of Bard College. She has published poems in Gulf Coast, Image, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere; Her Essay The Broken Country from Places I've Taken My Body was pick for the Best American Essays of 2021 publication (HMH Books).

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