Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’

The Book Review

The New York Times

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Goetsch talks about her new memoir, and CJ Hauser discusses “The Crane Wife.”

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0:00.0	I never felt hatred for my body and it was my thinking mind that was fighting against it.
0:08.4	The poet Diana Getsch is here to talk about her new book, This Body I War, which our
0:13.3	reviewer calls an achingly beautiful memoir about a trans woman's often vexed relationship
0:18.2	with her own body.
0:19.4	By the end of the book, I come out into a place of telling a kind of static love story
0:24.3	or slow growing love story and like what does it mean to not conflate drama with
0:29.9	love.
0:30.9	CJ Howzer talks about her essay collection, The Crane Wife, including the title piece,
0:36.3	which went viral when the Paris Review published it in 2019.
0:39.9	Plus, Alexandra Alter will have news from the publishing world and my colleague's
0:44.3	Jumanica Teib and Lauren Christensen will be here to talk about what they've been reading.
0:49.0	This is the Book Review Podcast.
0:50.6	It's July 22nd.
0:52.3	I'm John Williams.
0:56.5	Diana Getsch is here. She is the acclaimed author of eight poetry collections.
1:00.4	Her new book is a memoir called This Body I War.
1:03.8	The New York Times Book Review Manual Benton Court calls it an achingly beautiful memoir
1:08.3	about a trans woman's often vexed relationship with her own body.
1:12.0	What would it be like to be a girl?
1:13.8	That question may have felt immense when she was younger, but here and now Getsch presents
1:17.6	it with such clarity that it bowls one over.
1:20.3	Diana, thanks for being here.
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