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The Resource Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown
Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown
Resource Information
The item Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
- Summary
- "In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical 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 Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human-flawed, potent, feeling"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Contents
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- A Brief Litany of Forgettings
- Fragments, Never Sent
- Frankenstein Abroad
- Isbn
- 9780892555154
- Label
- Places I've taken my body : essays
- Title
- Places I've taken my body
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Molly McCully Brown
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical 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 Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human-flawed, potent, feeling"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1991-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brown, Molly McCully
- Dewey number
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- 818/.603
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.R722354
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Brown, Molly McCully
- Brown, Molly McCully
- Women poets, American
- Cerebral palsied
- Lone twins
- Label
- Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown
- Link
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A Brief Litany of Forgettings -- Fragments, Never Sent -- Frankenstein Abroad
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780892555154
- Lccn
- 2019044337
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- BEDD9532-47DA-4220-8CAC-5B1B6C39BDE4
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1141019136
- Label
- Places I've taken my body : essays, Molly McCully Brown
- Link
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A Brief Litany of Forgettings -- Fragments, Never Sent -- Frankenstein Abroad
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780892555154
- Lccn
- 2019044337
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- BEDD9532-47DA-4220-8CAC-5B1B6C39BDE4
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1141019136
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