{"product_id":"the-amputees-guide-to-sex-isbn-9781593760205","title":"The Amputee's Guide to Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003eA paradigm-shifting collection about disability and desire, recontextualized with an introduction by one of our most provocative contemporary poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jillian Weise wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, it was with the intention of changing the conversation around disability; essentially, she was tired of seeing \"cripples\" portrayed as asexual characters. The collection that resulted is a powerful lesson in desire, the body, pain, and possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems interrogate medical language and history, imagine Mona Lisa in a wheelchair, rewrite Elizabeth Bishop’s poem \"In the Waiting Room,\" address a lover’s arsonist ex-girlfriend, and show the prosthesis as the object of male curiosity and lust. \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, in a starred review, called the book a “charged and daring debut” and described Jillian Weise as an \"agile and powerful poet . . . speaking boldly and compassionately about a little-discussed subject that becomes universal in her careful hands.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 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 \"for\" a community? How to resist the institutionalization of ableist paradigms? How are atypical bodies silenced? Where do our corporeal selves intersect with our technologies?\"In her charged and daring debut, Weise artfully interweaves biographical details with meditations on the history of disability and sex, laying bare the complexities of finding sexual and emotional intimacy as an amputee with a prosthetic leg . . . An agile and powerful poet, Weise references medical literature, history and poetry, speaking boldly and compassionately about a little-discussed subject that becomes universal in her careful hands. —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers who can handle the hair-raising experience of Jillian Weise’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.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With deadpan heartbreak and powerful invention, Jillian Weise raids the border-territories between the human body and the arts, creating in her poetry a devastating imaginary space where immortal representations of face, limb and torso jostle and translate (beautifully, dangerously) into the transient flesh and bone of the perceived real world.\" —Josh Bell, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Planets Strike\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poems in Jillian Weise’s \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e perform an earthy, flamenco-like stomp and full-throated Whitmanesque song (the extended remix), reaching notes as daring and feeling as crushingly good-looking: This is my skin, my body and I am too \/ alive, electric, meat and metal.\" —Major Jackson, author of \u003ci\u003eHoops\u003c\/i\u003e  and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Weise’s book is fiercely and unabashedly feminist. In reading it, I was reminded in all the most complex and interesting ways of the role of the body in that troublesome triangle of sex, love, and politics: a triangle with deep implications for the feminist movement.\" —\u003ci\u003eSo to Speak Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), is a bold investigation of disability and sexuality.\" —Poetry Foundation\u003cb\u003eJillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Public Space, The Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. Weise is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, the Lannan Foundation, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an Associate Professor at Clemson University.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305075036389,"sku":"NP9781593760205","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593760205.jpg?v=1767738076","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-amputees-guide-to-sex-isbn-9781593760205","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}