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Jillian Weise

Jillian Weise’s books include The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, The Colony and The Book of Goodbyes. She teaches at Clemson University.

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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 1999: Ai’s Vice

Jillian Weise

‘I love Ai’s work because it gives me permission and reminds me that poetry invented fiction. I needed that in 1999 and I need it today.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Common Cyborg

Jillian Weise

‘I’m nervous at night when I take off my leg. I wait until the last moment before sleep to un-tech because I am a woman who lives alone’

Five Things Right NowFive Things Right Now | The Online Edition
Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition

Jillian Weise | Five Things Right Now

Jillian Weise

Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

Jillian Weise

‘You want to get married? / We could die here // for lack of light’

PoetryPoetry | Issue 132 padlock
Poetry | Issue 132 padlock

Poem Conveyed

Jillian Weise

‘And now that he is body-less, / he speaks through us. / You could say. Although / I myself have not caught / a Pope.’

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