{"product_id":"beautiful-flesh-stephanie-gschwind-9781885635570","title":"Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected from the country's leading literary journals and publications--\u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Normal School\u003c\/i\u003e, and others--\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens. The title is drawn from Wendy Call's essay \"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther essays include Dinty W. Moore's \"The Aquatic Ape,\" in which the author explores 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 about the author's internal cardiac defibrillator and the nature of electricity; Matt Roberts's \"Vasectomy Instruction 7,\" in which the author considers the various reasons for and implications of surgically severing and sealing the vas deferens; 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: personal, memoir, lyric, braided, and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e: Amy Butcher, Wendy Call, Steven Church, Sarah Rose Etter, Matthew Ferrence, Hester Kaplan, Sarah K. Lenz, Lupe Linares, Jody Mace, Dinty W. Moore, Angela Pelster, Matt Roberts, Peggy Shinner, Samantha Simpson, Floyd Skloot, Danielle R. Spencer, Katherine E. Standefer, Kaitlyn Teer, Sarah Viren, Vicki Weiqi Yang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie G'Schwind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1885635575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885635570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Stephanie G'Schwind","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075110039807,"sku":"9781885635570","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_917b5707-2714-4302-afd6-73d3926dbe72.jpg?v=1685457665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beautiful-flesh-stephanie-gschwind-9781885635570","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}