Skull Cathedral – A Vestigial Anatomy

Melissa Wiley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2020
Autumn House Press (Verlag)
9781938769566 (ISBN)

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In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exaltation, eroticism, grief, and desire. Using the slow evolution and odd disintegration of vestigial organs to enter the braided stories of the lives we establish for ourselves, the people we grieve, and the mysteries of youth, memory, and longing, Wiley’s lens is deeply feminist and compassionate.

Turning to these mysterious anatomical remnants, she finds insight into the lingering questions of loss and the nagging sensations of being incomplete. For instance, in considering the appendix, Wiley finds herself working through her grief after the loss of her father, a sensation that again resurfaces in the face of the moon as she looks to the sky. Testing the boundaries of genre and fighting to expand the limits of perception, the stylized essays of Skull Cathedral embrace the strangeness of life through the lingering peculiarities of the human body. Skull Cathedral, Wiley’s second book of nonfiction, won the 2019 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize.

Melissa Wiley grew up on a small farm in Indiana. She earned her Master’s in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago, where she worked as a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of the essay collections Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy (Autumn House Press) and Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split Lip Press). She was a member of the nonfiction programs of literary programs including Disquiet International in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Writer’s Hotel in NYC.

Grasping Reflex: Swallowing Needles Hymen: A Traveling Circus Appendix: A River Homing Wisdom Teeth: Man in the Moon Coccyx: The Mermaids of Austin Pinky Toes: Ghost Feet Spleen: Cloud Elephants Sinuses: Skull Cathedral Third Eyelid: Running through Water Male Nipples: Nurturing Instincts Palmaris Longus: The End of Longing Tonsils: Winter Honey Horripilation: Playing Dress-up Darwins Tubercle: Softer Hearing

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2020
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 204 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-13	9781938769566 / 9781938769566
Zustand	Neuware