Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf The message is: You are

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

An interdisciplinary writer

The recent focus on the one percent a group that has come to be associated with wealth and power obscures where the real source of capital and power lies today

in both form and in content

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

Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf The message is: You areIntimate, 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