What Becomes of a Body by Kristina Moriconi

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What does it mean to live inside a body that betrays you—and to make art from the wreckage?

In this singular, luminous work, Kristina Moriconi crosses every boundary of form—fractured prose, ekphrastic poetry, visual art—to reconstruct a life shaped by trauma, grief, and the relentless negotiation of self. The narrative fractures and stitches itself back together, allowing silence its own voice, distilling pure beauty from pain. What Becomes of a Body is both dissection and resurrection: raw, visceral, and devastatingly precise in its language — a tapestry woven from salvage and ruin.

This is a book unlike anything you have read. It will endanger you, remake you, and resonate long after the last page

Kristina Moriconi is a writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines including After the Artterrain, About Place, Assembla and Photo Trouvée. Her lyric narrative In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings was published by Atmosphere Press in August 2020. She lives in the woods outside Pittsburgh with her husband and three dogs.

“To read What Becomes of a Body is to be endangered and remade. It is to uphold the beauty of the kind of art that only hurt can make.”   
— Beth Kephart, National Book Award finalist and author of Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story
 
In What Becomes of a Body, through fractured prose and
visual art, the writer / artist dissects their relationship with
trauma and silence, resulting in a creative hybrid work that
is illuminating, thought-provoking, and deeply moving.
— Jessica Gigot, Minerva Rising’s 2023 Memoir Contest Judge

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