conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Butch Geography about Kwame, Dawes, Advance with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: "In this arresting collection, the author is a pathfinder,charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos and willful perplexity theuncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft and deftlanguage, that open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise." -- Kwame Dawes  --Advance Praise
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Butch Geography
  The body has its invariably public dimension: constituted as a social phenomenon in the public sphere, the body is and is not mine. Given over from the start to the world of others, bearing their imprint, formed within the crucible of social life, the body is only later, and with some uncertainty, that to which I lay claim as my own.
  The androgynous mind is resonant and porous; it transmits emotion without impediment; it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
  Bloom: "Letter from Thomas Beattie to the Media" and "On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Boy by the Umpire at the Little League Conference Championship"
  Columbia Poetry Review: "In the Second Grade Robby O'Reilly Punches Me in the Eye Because I Lost the Garter Snake I Was Supposed to Watch While He Went Camping with His Father in Maine" and "The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV"
  Marlboro Review: "On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Pregnant Woman to Whom I Have Relinquished My Bus Seat"
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Marlboro Review: "On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Pregnant Woman to Whom I Have Relinquished My Bus Seat"
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Nimrod: "Choke" and "On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by Security Personnel at Newark International Airport"
  The Rattling Wall: "On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Woman by a Therapist In the South Hills of Pittsburgh" and "Tits"
  I owe so much to Pittsburgh, to all the poets who sing from its bridges, and bars, and rivers, especially Ed Ochester, Lynn Emanuel, Toi Derricotte, Judith Vollmer, Jeff Oaks, Terrance Hayes, Jim Daniels, my little poet sister Kayla Sargeson, the thoughtful and handsome Tony Petrosky, and all the remarkable poets in the Madwomen in the Attic writing community. To my former and forever teachers Denise Duhamel, Saundra Morris, Patricia Terry, Joyce Sullivan, Nicole Cooley, Karl Patten, and Cynthia Hogue. Your guidance has led me always to the right places in my work and in my life. I give endless gratitude, also, to Jan Beatty with whom I would drive anywhere and who has fiercely loved these poems (and me) through many drafts and years.
  I have survived some of the grief and sorrow of these poems and of gender because of the deep friendships in my life, because of those who always show up, no matter what. Thank you, Amy Schafer, Kate Benchoff, Tara Lien, Jennifer Lee, and Julie Beaulieu. I thank, always, Jessie Milana, indeed my first girlfriend, whose unmistakable laugh rings out over twenty years.