![]() ![]() To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a 17-mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. ![]() ![]() The Norwich Bookstore will have copies of Crosby's book, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain, on hand for purchase. Dartmouth College's Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies presents the sixteenth Stonewall Lecture, Making Sex-"I am your physical lover," a talk by author and professor Christina Crosby. ![]()
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