The Amputee's Guide to Sex

The Amputee's Guide to Sex

A Los Angeles Review Best Book of the Year

â€œReaders who can handle the hair-raising experience of Jillian Weiseâ€™s gutsy poetry debut . . . will be rewarded with an elegant examination of intimacy and disability and a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden.â€ â€”Los Angeles Times

When Jillian Weise wrote The Amputeeâ€™s Guide to Sex, it was with the intention of changing the conversation around disability; essentially, she was tired of seeing â€œcripplesâ€ portrayed as asexual characters. The collection that resulted is a powerful lesson in desire, the body, pain, and possession. These poems interrogate medical language and history, imagine Mona Lisa in a wheelchair, rewrite Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s poem â€œIn the Waiting Room,â€ address a loverâ€™s arsonist ex-girlfriend, and show the prosthesis as the object of male curiosity and lust. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called the book a â€œcharged and daring debutâ€ and described Jillian Weise as an â€œagile and powerful poet . . . speaking boldly and compassionately about a little-discussed subject that becomes universal in her careful hands.â€

Ten years since its first publication, our culture continues to grapple with questions limned in this collection. In a new introduction, Weise revisits and recontextualizes her work, revealing its urgency to our present moment. What are the challenges of speaking â€œforâ€ a community? How to resist the institutionalization of ableist paradigms? How are atypical bodies silenced? Where do our corporeal selves intersect with our technologies?
Country USA
Manufacturer Soft Skull
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-09-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Soft Skull
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-09-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Amputee's Guide to Sex

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