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Words were burning. Walls. Make love not wall -- Ladies -- I was a funny person once -- 600. AIDS. Terrorist angel -- All of us are leaving -- Extraordinary measures -- Paul -- Paul -- For Richard. Mother hunger. Dear mother -- My mother was not my mother -- How fragile -- The whole world is raining -- Battered baby -- Dear white women. Femicide. Rachel's bed -- Women left for dead and the man who's saving them -- Baptized -- The bureau of sex slavery -- Disaster patriarchy -- Freeing the birdsong. Grief. Folding -- Theresienstadt -- Where all the grief. Falling. How do you live on the edge of what's over? -- After the fires -- Dear mother (Earth) -- Cicadas. Skin. Here's how we like it -- All snap in my jaw -- The war has begun -- It will all go like this -- Sometimes it's so can't stop -- Who will become without touch?. Reckoning. Let him be our unifier -- Keep us fed -- The alchemy of apology -- Finding your place -- Roses the size of teacup saucers -- To all those who dare rob us of our bodily choice -- Eve's revolution -- "Becoming part of that suffering and dancing country" -- Disruption -- "Is this the moment?" -- Then we were jumping. Epilogue. V: a dream vision of my new name. |
| Summary |
This book invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes readers from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family. Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom. |
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V, 1953-
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Political activists -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Dramatists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Change (Psychology)
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Autobiographies.
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| ADD'L TITLE |
Works. 2023
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| ISBN |
9781635579048
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163557904X
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