The Resurrection Trade is a revealing look at one of the ways women’s bodies have been constructed over time through the eyes of men. The book remains grounded through Miller’s writing of her present day experiences that contain the humanity that is lacking in the tinted prints she has studied. The Resurrection Trade book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's brilliant and provocative explo /5. Body. "The resurrection trade" refers to the business end of trafficking in corpses and body parts. It is an old trade, one that makes possible the art of anatomy and, as poet Leslie Adrienne Miller discovers, the art of her own book. Miller delves into the mysteries of early modern anatomical studies and mezzotint illustrations and finds there stories of women's lives—sometimes tragic, sometimes comic—as .
Leslie Adrienne Miller, The Resurrection Trade (Graywolf Press, ) I generally buy my poetry books as used bookstore "box day" sales or Half Price Books, so if memory serves, I paid more for The Resurrection Trade than I have for any book of poetry I've bought in the past five or so years. "Splayed, flayed and displayed." That's how Minnesota poet Leslie Adrienne Miller says women were illustrated in 18th century anatomical texts. Now she has a new book about it. Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including Y, The Resurrection Trade and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, an M.F.
Body. "The resurrection trade" refers to the business end of trafficking in corpses and body parts. It is an old trade, one that makes possible the art of anatomy and, as poet Leslie Adrienne Miller discovers, the art of her own book. Miller delves into the mysteries of early modern anatomical studies and mezzotint illustrations and finds there stories of women's lives—sometimes tragic, sometimes comic—as exposed as the medical drawings themselves. The naked woman on the cover of the "Resurrection Trade" has a Renaissance beauty. Her hair is coifed, and she looks over her shoulder as though to a lover with a demure smile and large eyes. She. Leslie Adrienne Miller. Average rating: · ratings · 19 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors. The Resurrection Trade. avg rating — 52 ratings — published Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read.
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