Innovative Prose Freak Lip: Essays of the Unsaid Volume 5, (Paperback)

<p>Why are some sentences impossible to speak aloud? When they become snared inside us, unsaid, how do they have such an impact on our relationships with others--and with ourselves? In <i>Freak Lip</i>, these sentences often relate to firsts: first period, first serious medical diagnosis, first sexual experience, first love. Cohen explores the often-isolating divide between what we easily express to ourselves internally and what's unbearable to articulate to another person. Finally expelling Cohen's own long-kept secret sentences in lyric essays that pair critical thought with everyday accumulations--dialogues with literary voices like Gertrude Stein, break-up emails, AirBnB reviews, and text-message threads--<i>Freak Lip</i> does more than document how the act of withholding jeopardizes our connection to others and ourselves. Refusing shame, it spills forth all that's unspeakable--our blood, our sex, our bodies, our truths.</p><p><b>Innovative Prose, No. 5 </b><br><b>Selected by Katie Jean Shinkle</b></p>

• Innovative Prose Freak Lip: Essays of the Unsaid Volume 5, (Paperback)
• Author: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
• ISBN: 9781680034240
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-08-15
• Page Count: 137