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A Body, Undone by Christina Crosby5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Both write through a feeling of being unseen, and both of their books can be read as defiant protests against misidentification.Ĭrosby’s memoir begins, as she says disability stories always must, with her accident. ![]() But what Crosby’s project shares with Nelson’s is that both women have found themselves in the uncomfortable position of being seen as a genre of person-a mother for Nelson, a quadriplegic for Crosby-whose life does not fit within genre conventions. Nelson writes of Crosby with gentle admiration Crosby writes about Nelson with the kind of delighted pride that you usually only hear from parents.Ī Body Undone is a very different book from Nelson’s, and Crosby is a very different writer: Her work is more academic in its habits and more withholding in its confessions. ![]() The relationship between the two women is clearly one of immense tenderness and intellectual generosity. The Maggie here is Maggie Nelson, the poet and memoirist, who has written extensively about her friendship with Crosby-notably in last year’s The Argonauts, an autobiographical reckoning of gender and motherhood. A BODY, UNDONE: LIVING ON AFTER GREAT PAIN by Christina Crosby NYU Press, 208 pp, $22.95 ![]()
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