{"product_id":"whitehead-joshua-making-lovpb","title":"Whitehead, Joshua: Making Love With the Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Minnesota Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel \u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda Literary Award and Canada Reads 2021. In \u003ci\u003eMaking Love with the Land, \u003c\/i\u003ehis first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the relationships between body, language, and land through creative essay, memoir, and confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of storytelling he calls \"biostory\"--beyond genre, and entirely sovereign. Through this narrative perspective, \u003ci\u003eMaking Love with the Land\u003c\/i\u003e recasts mental health struggles and our complex emotional landscapes from a nefarious parasite on his (and our) well-being to kin, even a relation, no matter what difficulties they present to us. Whitehead ruminates on loss and pain without shame or ridicule but rather highlights waypoints for personal transformation. Written in the aftermath of heartbreak, before and during the pandemic, \u003ci\u003eMaking Love with the Land\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates this present moment in which both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are rediscovering old ways and creating new ones about connection with and responsibility toward each other and the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly--even joyfully--maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44080437231639,"sku":"9781517915049","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781517915049.jpg?v=1765143877","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/whitehead-joshua-making-lovpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}