Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide But all roads lead back

But all roads lead back to Fillory

There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions

from a few hours to a full day

and continuities of the poetry of the Americas

Harris weaves through the legal

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide But all roads lead backA 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.