Freak Lip: Essays of the Unsaid Volume 5 - Paperback
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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 Freak Lip, 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--Freak Lip 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.
Innovative Prose, No. 5
Selected by Katie Jean Shinkle
JULIA COHEN is the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. She is the author of three previous books, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press), Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press), and Triggermoon Triggermoon (Black Lawrence Press). Her work appears in journals like the Georgia Review, The Southeast Review, Fugue, and The Bennington Review. She co-curates, with Abby Hagler, a poetry interview series at Tarpaulin Sky Magazine.
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