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03426aam a2200505 i 4500 001 EF3E4FF2B51611EAA870BF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200623010108 008 200213s2020 nyu b 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2019044336 020 $a 0892555130 020 $a 9780892555130 035 $a (OCoLC)1141021684 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TnLvILS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3602.R722354 $b P53 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Brown, Molly McCully, $d 1991- $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections. 245 10 $a Places I've taken my body : $b essays / $c Molly McCully Brown. 246 3 $a Places I have taken my body. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Persea Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 215 pages ; $c 19 cm. 500 $a "A Karen & Michael Braziller book." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214). 505 00 $t Frankenstein abroad. $t In smoke and exhaustion -- $t If you are permanently lost -- $t Bent body, lamb -- $t What we are -- $t Narrative and need -- $t The skin you're in -- $t Something's wrong with me -- $t The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded -- $t Calling long distance -- $t Poetry, patience, and prayer -- $t The broken country : on disability and desire -- $t Public anatomy -- $t A brief litany of forgettings -- $t Fragments, never sent -- $t Frankenstein abroad. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Brown, Molly McCully, $d 1991- $x Travel. 600 10 $a Brown, Molly McCully, $d 1991- $x Religion. 650 0 $a Women poets, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Cerebral palsied $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Lone twins $z United States $x Psychology. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Brown, Molly McCully, 1991- $t Places i've taken my body $d New York : Persea Books, 2020. $z 9780892555154 $w (DLC) 2019044337. 941 $a 7 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025329.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012921.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221103011417.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20201201010830.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20200917010206.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200804015315.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200715010044.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF3E4FF2B51611EAA870BF0297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search