Mad Creek Booksan imprint of The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
170 pages ; 22 cm.
Other Titles:
Essays. Selections
Contents:
On revision. On plucking white hairs -- Hunger -- Heartbeat -- On running -- Election day -- Live find -- On teaching Brian Doyle's "Leap" to students born after 9/11 -- Love lace -- A model home -- Ink -- On night -- Muse -- Green thumb -- On harvesting -- Polish -- On revision.
Summary:
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"-- Provided by publisher. 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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.