Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf An interdisciplinary writer

An interdisciplinary writer

At a time when the old divisions between "left" and "right" have never seemed less self-evident

and the kind of honesty that makes you breathe a little deeper and say

The message is: You are not alone-and there is HOPE

and native food culture restoration into one published piece

Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf An interdisciplinary writerIntimate, wry and a little sour, Asa Drake's Beauty Talk addresses the (im)possibility of talking about beauty in America without addressing whiteness. Here is a personal history of who gets to be beautiful. While Beauty Talk pulls from the autobiographical: a father as the 1970's Camel cigarette man, correspondences with abandoned siblings, an historic family map; the collection is shaped by the illegibility, omission and ekphrasis of the personal