Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide founder of the eminent Rochester

founder of the eminent Rochester Zen Center

But all roads lead back to Fillory

and continuities of the poetry of the Americas

Barnicoat’s prose is always relatable

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide founder of the eminent RochesterA 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.