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Poetry kills the beautiful people. The Fat Kid, Paul Vermeersch's second full-
length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor
body image, and low self-esteem. The media's perfect faces, societal
expectations, family concerns, and primitive socialization rituals collide
with the already horrendous physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence
to drive Calvin Little over the edge. He'll stop at nothing to become
beautiful and weightless, but he must conceal his battle with what the world
has come to know as a girl's disease. Is there redemption in social
acceptance, in romantic love, in escaping gravity? Is it enough to learn to
love yourself? Calvin's journey is told in a sequence of poems steeped in both
the physical and psychological worlds, in voices that range from the bawdy to
the elegiac. In The Fat Kid Calvin Little becomes the ideal antihero - for a
shallow culture obsessed with thin.
length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor
body image, and low self-esteem. The media's perfect faces, societal
expectations, family concerns, and primitive socialization rituals collide
with the already horrendous physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence
to drive Calvin Little over the edge. He'll stop at nothing to become
beautiful and weightless, but he must conceal his battle with what the world
has come to know as a girl's disease. Is there redemption in social
acceptance, in romantic love, in escaping gravity? Is it enough to learn to
love yourself? Calvin's journey is told in a sequence of poems steeped in both
the physical and psychological worlds, in voices that range from the bawdy to
the elegiac. In The Fat Kid Calvin Little becomes the ideal antihero - for a
shallow culture obsessed with thin.
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