![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her training as a close reader is evident in the precision and care with which she guides us through the book’s varied materials-many of her short chapters juxtapose childhood memories, present-tense sensations, and snippets of poetry to illuminating effect. ![]() Crosby’s new memoir, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (NYU Press), begins at the onset of that after not simply because of the irreparable rift it opened between old life and new, but because of the trial it poses to both writer and reader: “to put into words a body that seemed beyond the reach of language.”Ĭrosby was already an accomplished scholar at the time of her accident and remains Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, her institutional home for decades. Fifty years into an exceptionally active life, she was thrown into a radically uncertain future of limited mobility and dependency on others. I should begin as the author does, with the accident: “On October 1, 2003, I caught a branch in the spokes of the front wheel of my bicycle, and hurtled toward the pavement.” Christina Crosby was paralyzed upon impact. ![]()
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