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History Is Embarrassing
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Artikel-Nr:
9781960327024
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.03.2024
Seiten:
264
Autor:
Karen Chase
Gewicht:
246 g
Format:
230x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Karen Chase is the author of two collections of poems, Kazimierz Square and BEAR as well as Jamali-Kamali, a book-length homoerotic poem, and the memoirs Land of Stone, Polio Boulevard, and FDR On His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924-1926. She and her husband live in Western Massachusetts. Visit her online at karenchase.com.
A collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise. Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase's History is Embarrassing weaves together threads from one single life-a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter. Like Chase, the characters who populate these essays are outsiders-undercover cops, a gay couple in 1500s India, bear poachers, psychiatric patients, and even a president-each a meaningful part of history. Divided into three parts-histories, pleasures, and horrors-History is Embarrassing is an assortment of thought-provoking essays that are sure to resonate with many readers.