{"product_id":"the-amputees-guide-to-sex-jillian-weise-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jillian Weise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1593760205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593760205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Jillian Weise","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043362468095,"sku":"9781593760205","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b3fd483-20f6-4ec7-9ce2-c1ee6205d094.jpg?v=1684966720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-amputees-guide-to-sex-jillian-weise-9781593760205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}