{"product_id":"the-amputee-s-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?","brand":"Penguin Random House","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\/products\/the-amputee-s-guide-to-sex-isbn-9781593760205","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}