Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics --Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br'er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus--that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life's rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, subject positions in American labor (not excluding academia), and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, central-piedmont North Carolina.Author: Brian BlanchfieldPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublished: 01/04/2016Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9781937658458Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2016Publishers Weekly 02/22/2016About the AuthorBrian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry, Not Even Then and A Several World, which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award and was a longlist finalist for the National Book Award. His book of essays, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, was published in April