Proxies

Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics Foot Washing, Dossiers, Brer Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenusthat begin to unpack the essayist himself and his lifes 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.