Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2021
ISBN-10: 0823294757
ISBN-13: 978-0823294756
Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise” his lips? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A.W. Strouse excavates a secret poetics of the foreskin.
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