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In seventeen intimate essays poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a bodyin her case one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy a permanent and often painful movement disorder
In spite ofindeed in response tophysical constraints Brown leads a peripatetic life the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna Italy Moving between these locales and others Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out a disabled and conspicuous body a religious conversion a missing twin a life in poetry As she does she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics among them Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and the worlds oldest anatomical theatre the American Eugenics movement and Jerry Falwells Liberty University Throughout Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences woven together in consideration always of what it means to be humanflawed potent feeling
These remarkable essays invite us to look long and hard at our own interior landscapes and to negotiate exterior ones with as much grace and gratitude as we can muster Eliza Griswold
Urgent compelling and lyrically luminously beautiful Psychologies Magazine
Molly McCully Brown received her MFA from the University of Mississippi and is a graduate of Stanford University and Simons Rock of Bard College She has published poems in Gulf Coast Image Kenyon Review and elsewhere
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