Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide There are poems that interrogate

There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions

and continuities of the poetry of the Americas

the young children—some not yet five years old—selected the white doll as preferable

founder of the eminent Rochester Zen Center

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide There are poems that interrogateA searing portrait of a mothers bodya resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctors office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh: tissue that overheals to become its own wound.