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    The Amputee's Guide to Sex

    By Jillian Weise

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    Key Selling Points
  • There is an important and renewed focus on the issues of able-bodied privilege, disabled persons' accessibility in creative and sexual spaces/portrayals, etc and Weise's is a singular artistic voice within the conversation
  • With so many "Nasty Women" and "Nevertheless, She Persisted" reading groups and book clubs popping up, this collection is an essential recommended read
  • As part of the Soft Skull editorial relaunch, we're reissuing backlist titles whose stellar impact and ongoing significance warrant their place in the cultural conversation. THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX was selected as the quintessential Soft Skull title with which to launch this reissue project
  • When first published in 2007, this spare book of poetry changed the conversation around disability. Weise’s verse is just as powerful, provocative, and necessary in 2017.
  • In a new introduction, Weise recontextualizes her work, revisiting her experiences while she wrote it, and revealing the collection’s urgency to our present moment.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoft Skull Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2017
    ISBN9781593760748
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    The Amputee's Guide to Sex
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    Jillian Weise

    Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her first book of poetry, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition with a new preface. Her second book of poetry, The Book of Goodbyes, won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Cyborg Detective is her third poetry collection. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan.

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    • 5/5
      I admit that I'm generally skittish of poetry collections that have a clear over-arching idea to guide the full work, while still not being a narrative--too often, they're contrived and tiresome by halfway through. That, probably, is why it took me so long to read this wonderful collection. Fresh and intimate, this collection is both humorous and heartbreaking at the perfectly timed moments--the rhythms and language here are memorable and worth rereading, and the ideas are unique and accessable. As far as contemporary poetry collections go, this is a new favorite of mine, and one which I'll be rereading and recommending. If you're a reader of poetry, you should be reading Weise.
    • 5/5
      Admittedly I am very poor at reading poetic prose. However, as one with missing limbs , I finally found a poet who understands from where I come.
    • 5/5
      A century ago, people went to freak shows to gawk at human oddities, to marvel at lives lived only in average nightmares. Most would imagine horrors of invaded privacy and what it would be like to be scrutinized for what they appeared to be on the surface: incomplete, strange, inhuman. But Jillian Weise enlightens readers to what it is like to be the freak show with insightful free-form poetry that often times runs like a stream of consciousness, and invites the reader to experience the inner workings of someone who lives day-to-day with the misplaced label of "freak".Jillian breaks free of traditional forms to express her words, much like her daily life (or the lives of those she presents in her prose) and further expresses her statement that beauty, and ignorance, comes in all forms and that we should accept people for who they are, not what they look like. She touches on personal subjects, she dives into the viewpoints of others, discusses the where and why of how she came to be, and who she is.She declares 'I am only human' with pieces like Laundry and Waiting Room and encapsulates every woman's fears and wishes for a baby born free of malformations, retardation, and life-threatening disease with Body as Cloud. Her usage of metaphor mixed with reality and double entendre titles is excellent.“What explanation could be givenmore than why we see clouds differently?Why some are rabbit earswhile others are the tails of lions?"-Body as Cloud “Toby is known as the-kid-with-leukemia. He will be your roommate in Intensive Care. He will wake you up, screaming in the middle of the night and you will wish he would go ahead and die." -Waiting Room In “Nikita's Indian Restaurant" Jillian expresses a desire that we all have as women, as people, to be respected and to have our dignity kept intact. This poem is about a woman who has to stand up for herself when her friend/lover sits quietly by, as an on-looker unabashedly asks about her physical handicaps. She does this with a bit of humor, laced with sarcasm and disappointment, proving the handicap is not hers, nor the curious on-looker, but the person who cannot defend what they claim to love. “Why does she sit on a child's stool? Why is she so short? Then the man says, Tell her to stand. I want to see her body. You do not take my hand. You do not meet his glance, spout, slap, or spit. This is how you fail us. By twitching, tottering on what to say and how to say it. When you can't think of anything, I have to say to the man, What are you talking about? I'm as tall as Greta Garbo. I have to say this because you will not. I wonder if you ever say anything when your women sit opposite you, waiting to be defended." -Nikita's Indian RestaurantA person learns who they are with family, be it good or bad, whether the family is chosen personally or not. But family sometimes can break a heart, even with good intentions. In her piece Training Wheels, Jillian shows us just that. “Our house was built on You Can with my father slugging back Milwaukee Lights. You can walk. You can skip. You can run. You can bike. They told me but never took the training wheels off my bicycle." -Training WheelsJillian Weise allowed me to take a glimpse into her personal thoughts and helped me to understand a little better the plight of someone usually deemed as less-fortunate (which she is obviously not). I would like to close with an excerpt of The Gift, a poem on how love can point at our insecurities, allow us to laugh at them and accept them, and how it can be truly unconditional. “I sign waivers and give up the fake leg. I point to Holman's zipper, ask if they have a better one of these too, less veiny, more girth. We fly home with new parts... I always wanted to strip at the Kitty Cave on South Elm. Holman always wanted to drop pants in front of several women, lights on. We have affairs. We are in love." -The GiftIt's not your usual flowery, lovey-dovey poetry. It's not even your dark-angst type literary spill. It is raw, emotional, sometimes humorous, and it is gathered like memories discussed by family who have long since left these days behind, yet it remains in-your-face.This is a definite read if you enjoy poetry with a realistic base and an ethereal edge. But if you read it expecting a freak show, don't. It is definitely anything but.