Chronicling a childhood troubled by obesity poor body image and low selfesteem this collection of poetry reveals how the medias perfect facessocietal expectatio... » 

Chronicling a childhood troubled by obesity poor body image and low selfesteem this collection of poetry reveals how the medias perfect facessocietal expectations family concerns and primitive socialization ritualscollide with the physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence to driveCalvin Little over the edge. Hell stop at nothing to become beautiful andweightless but he must conceal his battle with what the world has come to knowas a girls disease. Is there redemption in social acceptance in romanticlove in escaping gravity? Is it enough to learn to love oneself? Calvinsjourney is told in a sequence of poems steeped in both the physical andpsychological worlds in voices that range from the bawdy to the elegiac.Through these poems Calvin Little becomes the ideal antihero for a shallowculture obsessed with thin. «