Books

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, The Marrow’s Telling; Words in Motions, and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation are read by academics and activists alike, passed along from friend to friend, and colleague to colleague. One reader says, “Eli’s poetry and prose rush through my heart like a mighty river.”

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Image description: Brilliant Imperfection's cover is filled with a pile of brown, gray, and black stones, one green stone in the middle. The title sits on a gray bar atop the stones.

Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure–the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Read more about Brilliant Imperfection.

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Image description: The cover of The Marrow's Telling is a collage; a tall narrow topographical map of a river sits next to three square fragments of a portrait of Eli.

A collection of poetry and prose spanning 15 years, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion explores how bodies carry history and identity over time, embracing both contradiction and repetition. Read more about The Marrow’s Telling.

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Image description: A close-up black and white photo of a Douglas fir trunk fills Exile and Pride's cover. The bark is swirled and ridged.

First published in 1999, this book of essays established Eli Clare as a groundbreaking writer on the intersections of queerness, disability, and environmental justice. Read more about Exile and Pride.