Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics ―Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus―that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life’s rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, subject positions in American labor (not excluding academia), and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, central-piedmont North Carolina.

• A Bestiary
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• My 1980s and Other Essays
• Experiments in Joy
• Crazy for Vincent (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
• Bluets
• Abandon Me: Memoirs
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
• Don't Come Back (21st Century Essays)