University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-299-19054-5 | eISBN: 978-0-299-19053-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3556.R568Z464 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 818.5409
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts the challenges of his life. Body, Remember is a story about connection, a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man’s search for the sources of identity and difference.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Kenny Fries lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts, and teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.
REVIEWS
"A remarkable memoir."—Out
"Refreshing in its lack of false inspirational tone. . . . To shape into coherence the raw material of almost unbearable life experience is always a form of victory. . . . I wanted to shout hallelujah."—San Francisco Bay Guardian
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
ONE
Questions of Origin
TWO
Heat and White Stone
THREE
Wishing for the Cloths of Heaven
FOUR
A Difference in Time
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-299-19054-5 eISBN: 978-0-299-19053-8
In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts the challenges of his life. Body, Remember is a story about connection, a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man’s search for the sources of identity and difference.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Kenny Fries lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts, and teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.
REVIEWS
"A remarkable memoir."—Out
"Refreshing in its lack of false inspirational tone. . . . To shape into coherence the raw material of almost unbearable life experience is always a form of victory. . . . I wanted to shout hallelujah."—San Francisco Bay Guardian
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
ONE
Questions of Origin
TWO
Heat and White Stone
THREE
Wishing for the Cloths of Heaven
FOUR
A Difference in Time
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