{"product_id":"weise-jillian-the-amputees-guide-to-sex","title":"Weise, Jillian: The Amputee's Guide to Sex","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoft Skull Press (paperback, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32929112162327,"sku":"9781593760205","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/jw3.gif?v=1603500778","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/weise-jillian-the-amputees-guide-to-sex","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}