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The Uses of the Body by Deborah Landau is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Uses of the Body about?
"Landau's killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath—leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire. The Uses of the Body is her best book, its acerbic tone interspersed with lines of grave and startling beauty." — Los Angeles Times * "As freshly immediate as ever, award-winning poet Landau reveals that 'the uses of the body are manifold,' moving in four sections with a roughly chronological feel from wedding parties to flabby bodies around the pool to the realization 'But we already did everything'—all with an underlying sense of urgency: 'Life please explain.' As Landau explores her physical self and her sexuality, she's tart, witty, fluid, direct, and brutally honest, and her work can be appreciated by any reader."— Library Journal, starred review "Deborah Landau . . . is both confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. Her taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions meditate upon yearning and selfhood."— Booklist Deborah Landau's Uses of the Body presents the very specific challenges of womanhood. Her poems address what it means to be alive— right now —in a female body. She fills her poetry with compelling nouns: wine glasses,
Who reads The Uses of the Body?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Deborah Landau
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556594816
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Erotica, Literary Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
