Body, Remember: A Memoir

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ALSO BY KENNY FRIES Night After Night The Healing Notebooks Anesthesia Desert Walking Kenny Fries A MEMOIR with a new preface The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ Copyright © 1997, 2003 Kenny Fries All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fries, Kenny, 1960Body , remember : a memoir / Kenny Fries ; with a new preface. p. cm. - (Living out) ISBN 0-299-19054-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Fries, Kenny, 1960- 2. Authors, American-20th century-Biography. 3. People with disabilities-United States-Biography. 4. Leg-AbnormalitiesPatients -United States-Biography. 5. Gay men-United States-Biography. I. Title. II. Series. PS3556.R568 Z464 2003 818'.5409--dc21 2003045825 [B] "Body, Remember" from C. P. Cavafy Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Copyright © 1980 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from "Double Ode" by Muriel Rukeyser, from A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, 1994, W. W. Norton, N.Y., © William L. Rukeyser. Some of the names of those who appear in this book have been changed to protect the privacy of those individuals. to my parents and now for Kevin Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voicesonly some chance obstacle frustrated them. Now that it's all finally in the past, it seems almost as if you gave yourself to those desires too-how they glowed, remember, in eyes that looked at you, remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices. -CO P. CAVAFY ...