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02027aam a2200313 i 4500 001 EC35BD460FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230621010022 008 221207s2023 ohu e 000 e eng 010 $a 2022051217 020 $a 0814258689 020 $a 9780814258682 035 $a (OCoLC)1350187299 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d LE# $d SILO 100 1 $a Baxter, Megan, $d 1985- $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 10 $a Twenty square feet of skin / $c Megan Baxter. 246 3 $a 20 square feet of skin. 264 1 $a Columbus : $b Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 170 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a 21st century essays 505 00 $t On revision. $t On plucking white hairs -- $t Hunger -- $t Heartbeat -- $t On running -- $t Election day -- $t Live find -- $t On teaching Brian Doyle's "Leap" to students born after 9/11 -- $t Love lace -- $t A model home -- $t Ink -- $t On night -- $t Muse -- $t Green thumb -- $t On harvesting -- $t Polish -- $t On revision. 520 $a Personal essays that--through tattoos, plastic surgery, running, physical labor, and more--explore the body and its connection to identity creation and the world around us"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body--encased as it is in "that greatest of organs, that membrane that protects the individual from the universe"--as Megan Baxter's entr?e to and home within the larger world that surrounds her. What does a tattoo mean? How can plastic surgery transform? What is the history of pedicures? Where does the mind wander on a long run? Through every example, Baxter writes toward a greater understanding of how self-knowledge is forged through physical experiences. 830 0 $a 21st century essays. 941 $a 2 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015415.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230621010535.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EC35BD460FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search