Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

By Brian Blanchfield

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658457
• ISBN13: 9781937658458
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"