{"product_id":"9781593760205","title":"The Amputee's Guide to Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review \u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Readers who can handle the hair-raising experience of Jillian Weise’s gutsy poetry debut . . . will be rewarded with an elegant examination of intimacy and disability and a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. These 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051044978928,"sku":"9781593760205","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593760205_p0.jpg?v=1763812607","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593760205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}