Jillian Weise (Author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex)

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Jillian Weise

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Born

in Houston, The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Art

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Ishmael Reed, Judy Grahn, Barbara Kruger, Nella Larson, Jean Toomer, A ...more

Member Since

July 2007

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The Cyborg Jillian Weise (Cy/Cy's/Cyself, also She/Hers) is a poet, video artist and activist. Recent essays include and . Cy started Borg 4 Borg Productions and directed the film A KIM DEAL PARTY ft. Eileen Myles, Patricia Lockwood, Alice Wong and more. From 2016-2020, Weise performed the fictional character of Tipsy Tullivan across social.
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Average rating: 4.42 · 15,965 ratings · 2,351 reviews · 15 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong (Editor), Harriet McBryde Johnson (Contributor), Talila A. Lewis (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 16,321 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Amputee's Guide to Sex 4.21 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability by Jennifer Bartlett (Editor), Sheila Black, Michael Northen 4.14 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Goodbyes 3.62 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colony 3.57 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyborg Detective 4.07 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pills and Jacksonvilles: Poems 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Translating the Body it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The night before I鈥檇 discovered am lost in almost. Did everyone already know?”
― Jillian Weise, The Colony

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“The dead walk into poems
all the time

Nobody complains”
― Jillian Weise, The Book of Goodbyes

tags: poetry

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Jillian鈥檚 Quotes

“The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

tags: affect, irony

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“But there is a kind of poem you can call a Hawkins poem as there is a kind of chair you can call a Hawkins chair, and the object of both is to get praise, which is the confidence in yourself that you get from people whom you have succeeded in pleasing when you haven't any confidence in yourself.”
― Laura Riding Jackson, Four Unposted Letters to Catherine

tags: confidence, guidance, poetry

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“Suppose you meet me in the woods.”
― Eudora Welty

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“In a threesome, there are always two exhibitionists and a voyeur.”
― Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies

tags: sex, threesomes

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“When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.”
― Augusto Monterroso

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) 欧宝娱乐 honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg 鈥淕od has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.鈥� 鈥擜nne Sexton On Clouds 鈥� 鈥溾€hat primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about鈥︹€� 鈥擸evgeny Zamyatin 鈥淚f the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn鈥檛 wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.鈥� 鈥擠onald Hall 鈥淧oetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation鈥檚 tears in shoulder blades.鈥� 鈥擝oris Pasternak 鈥淲anted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.鈥� 鈥擟harles Simic 鈥淟anguage is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.鈥� 鈥擥ustave Flaubert 鈥淧oetry is not an expression of the party line. It鈥檚 that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that鈥檚 what the poet does.鈥� 鈥擜llen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women鈥檚 National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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