Being bodies - 69

The human body is admired, displayed, and dissected in this eclectic collection of stories, poems, and essays from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, and more.

It is an exploration of the complex circumstances of our flesh-and-blood existence.

Our bodies dance; they're inked; they contain prosthetics and implants.

Our bodies are gendered, though not always correlative with how we perceive ourselves.

Some use bodies for violence; some sacrifice their bodies for others.

Our bodies are mortal, their days numbered. We do with them what we can and what we will. Through innovative poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction, 30 writers consider bodies as subjects; bodies as objects; bodies as loci of politics, illness, nature, artifice, performance, power, abuse, reward, disgust, and desire.