Title and statement of responsibility from cover. Publisher name precedes place of publication on colophon. Imprint precedes
edition statement on colophon. Rare Book Room copy 198 of 500.
"Design: Matt Austin, April Sheridan, Aay Preston-Myint, Hannah Batsel; Production: April Sheridan, Matt Austin, Hannah Batsel,
Katie Chung, Melanie Bohrer, Molly Berkson"--Colophon.
Description
Part memoir, part treatise, part collage and experiment, Krista Franklin's Under the Knife is an excavation; a dig at the
sites of the construction and demolition of the poet/artist's selves. Franklin plays fast and loose with fact at the crossroads
of the history of her maternal line and her own in a ruptured conversation about inheritance and the generational traumas
that blossom in the body. Under the Knife hiccups, cross-fades and stops midsentence as Franklin cuts through the illusion
of memory, the pathologies of history, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.