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Michael V. Smith My Body Is Yours (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- My Body Is Yours : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- My Body Is Yours
- Title
- My Body Is Yours
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1551525771
- EAN
- 9781551525778
- ISBN
- 9781551525778
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Art, Social Science
- Release Date
- 22/10/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- Canadian, Men's Studies, Lgbt, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A memoir about fathers and sons, breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood. Lambda Literary Award finalist Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male--a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as a means to cope and heal. As an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, Michael questions the very notion of what it means to be human. He also asks: How can we know what a man is? How might understanding gender as metaphor be a tool for a deeper understanding of identity? In coming to terms with his past "failures" at masculinity, and with an aging father he is only beginning to come to know, Michael offers a new way of thinking about breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN-10
1551525771
ISBN-13
9781551525778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204179464
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Body Is Yours : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Canadian, Men's Studies, Lgbt, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1090
Reviews
"My Body Is Yours is frenetic with experience--the joy and compulsion, purity and loneliness of cruising for sex; the rawness of public vulnerability in performance and writing; the anguish and innocence of searching for a way to inhabit your body when the world tells you it cannot be yours. Michael V. Smith shows us the full range of the open heart." --Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco "The writing here is intimate, complicated and soulful. There is a lineage of gay men who write about sex without divorcing it from the broad context of their lives. Michael V. Smith is part of that lineage." --Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap "To read Michael V. Smith's My Body Is Yours is to accompany him on an intimate journey in which he struggles to create his own definition of manhood ... Regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic background, or any other superficial definition, readers will appreciate Smith's forthright presentation of his most intimate history, revelations that avoid sounding confessional but instead read as honest recollections and observations." --Foreword Magazine, " My Body Is Yours is frenetic with experience--the joy and compulsion, purity and loneliness of cruising for sex; the rawness of public vulnerability in performance and writing; the anguish and innocence of searching for a way to inhabit your body when the world tells you it cannot be yours. Michael V. Smith shows us the full range of the open heart." --Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco "The writing here is intimate, complicated and soulful. There is a lineage of gay men who write about sex without divorcing it from the broad context of their lives. Michael V. Smith is part of that lineage." --Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap, " My Body Is Yours is frenetic with experience—the joy and compulsion, purity and loneliness of cruising for sex; the rawness of public vulnerability in performance and writing; the anguish and innocence of searching for a way to inhabit your body when the world tells you it cannot be yours. Michael V. Smith shows us the full range of the open heart." —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco "The writing here is intimate, complicated and soulful. There is a lineage of gay men who write about sex without divorcing it from the broad context of their lives. Michael V. Smith is part of that lineage." —Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap, " My Body Is Yours is frenetic with experience--the joy and compulsion, purity and loneliness of cruising for sex; the rawness of public vulnerability in performance and writing; the anguish and innocence of searching for a way to inhabit your body when the world tells you it cannot be yours. Michael V. Smith flames and flails, he instigates and interrogates, revealing gender as a 'conscious, live response' instead of a societally prescribed formula for shutting off. From choreographing group sex to commanding the stage in drag to helping his father to live (and die), Michael V. Smith shows us the full range of the open heart." --Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco, " My Body Is Yours is frenetic with experience--the joy and compulsion, purity and loneliness of cruising for sex; the rawness of public vulnerability in performance and writing; the anguish and innocence of searching for a way to inhabit your body when the world tells you it cannot be yours. Michael V. Smith shows us the full range of the open heart." --Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco "The writing here is intimate, complicated and soulful. There is a lineage of gay men who write about sex without divorcing it from the broad context of their lives. Michael V. Smith is part of that lineage." --Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap "To read Michael V. Smith's My Body Is Yours is to accompany him on an intimate journey in which he struggles to create his own definition of manhood ... Regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic background, or any other superficial definition, readers will appreciate Smith's forthright presentation of his most intimate history, revelations that avoid sounding confessional but instead read as honest recollections and observations." -- Foreword Magazine
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2019-393742
Dewey Decimal
306.76/62092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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