Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

Indispensable essays on the body, mind, and spirit by Molly McCully Brown, author of the acclaimed poetry collection, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, a book the New York Times described as "part history lesson, part séance, part ode to dread. It arrives as if clutching a spray of dead flowers. It is beautiful and devastating."

In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since ...