LEADER 03991oam 22004694a 450 001 9910792959703321 005 20170922081449.0 010 $a1-885635-58-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000001368993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4863655 035 $a(OCoLC)978295442 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60901 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001368993 100 $a20170221d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aBeautiful Flesh$eA Body of Essays /$fedited by Stephanie G'Schwind 210 1$aFort Collins, Colorado :$cCenter for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University,$d[2017] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2017 210 4$dİ[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (262 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-885635-57-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tField notes on hair /$rVicki Weiqi Yang --$tGray area : thinking with a damaged brain /$rFloyd Skloot --$tThe aquatic ape hypothesis, or how I learned to love my paranasal sinuses /$rDinty W. Moore --$tLooking back /$rDanielle R. Spencer --$tElective /$rPeggy Shinner --$tSpeaking of ears and savagery /$rSteven Church --$tA living structure /$rLupe Linares --$tThe spine /$rSarah Rose Etter --$tDrawing a breath /$rKaity Teer --$tShock to the heart, or : a primer on the practical applications of electricity /$rKatherine E. Standefer --$tBlood type /$rSamantha Simpson --$tMos teutonicus /$rMatthew Ferrence --$tWolf biter /$rSarah Viren --$tThe private life of skin /$rHester Kaplan --$tBeautiful flesh /$rWendy Call --$tThe belly of desire /$rSarah K. Lenz --$tThe population of me /$rJody Mace --$tPre-vasectomy instruction no. 7 /$rMatt Roberts --$tTaking shape /$rAmy Butcher --$tOnce, then /$rAngela Pelster. 330 $a"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. 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aAmerican essays$y21st century 608 $aEssays. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aAmerican essays 676 $a814/.6 702 $aG'Schwind$b Stephanie 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792959703321 996 $aBeautiful Flesh$93848390 997 $aUNINA