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Beauty is a verb [electronic resource] : the new poetry of disability / edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen.

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Louisville : Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.

People with disabilities, Writings of, American.

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

People with disabilities -- Poetry.

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9781935955375 (electronic bk.)

1935955373 (electronic bk.)

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; PREFACE by Jennifer Bartlett; A SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICAN DISABILITY POETRY, by Michael Northen; EARLY VOICES; Larry Eigner; MISSING LARRY: THE POETICS OF DISABILITY IN LARRY EIGNER, by Michael Davidson; Six Poems; Tom Andrews; from Codeine Diary; The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle; Vassar Miller; SWIMMING ON CONCRETE: THE POETRY OF VASSAR MILLER, by Jill Alexander Essbaum; If I Had Wheels or Love; Dramatic Monologue in the Speaker's Own Voice; The Common Core; Subterfuge; Robert Fagan; Less; Proem; Stiege; Josephine Miles.

THE VOICE OF ""REASON"", by Susan SchweikDoll; Album; Motive; Intensives; Payment; THE DISABILITY POETICS MOVEMENT; Jim Ferris; KEEPING THE KNIVES SHARP; Poet of Cripples; Normal; Poems with Disabilities; From the Surgeons: Drs. Sofield, Louis, Hark, Alfini, Millar, Baehr, Bevan-Thomas, Tsatsos, Ericson, and Bennan; Lost Hyoid; Kenny Fries; from STARING BACK: THE DISABILITY EXPERIENCE FROM THE INSIDE OUT; Excavation; Body Language; Beauty and Variations; Petra Kuppers; THE SOUND OF THE BONES; The Origin of My Wheelchair; Crip Music; from Spherical Song Cycle; Daniel Simpson.

LINE BREAKS THE WAY I SEE THEMSchool for the Blind; Broken Reverie; About Chester Kowalski I Don't Know Much; A Few Things; Laura Hershey; GETTING COMFORTABLE; Working Together; Telling; Morning; Thousand Island; Jillian Weise; from THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE LEGACY OF POETS WITH DISABILITIES; The Amputee's Guide to Sex; The Old Questions; The Devotee; The Body in Pain; Kathi Wolfe; HELEN KELLER: OBSESSION AND MUSE; On the Subway; Ashes: Rome, 1946; She Loved Hot Dogs So Much; The Sun is Warm: Nagasaki, 1948; John Lee Clark; TRANSLATING AND READING ASL POETRY.

Deaf Blind: Three Squared CinquainClamor; Beach Baseball; Long Goodbyes; LYRICISM OF THE BODY; Alex Lemon; AND NOW I SEE; Mosquito; It Had Only Been Dead a Few Hours; Other Good; And No More May I Be; Laurie Clements Lambeth; RESHAPING THE OUTLINE; Hypoesthesia; The Shaking; Seizure, or Seduction of Persephone; Dysaesthesia; Brian Teare; LYING MEDITATION; 5 poems from THE EMPTY FORM GOES ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN; Ona Gritz; A CONCIOUS DECISION; Hemiplegia; No; Prologue; Because You Can't See My Photographs; We Are Everywhere; Stephen Kuusisto; DIGRESSIONS ON POETRY, PROSE AND A LINGONBERRY BUSH.

Letter to Borges from Houston, TexasBorges: They Are Knocking the Wind Out of Me in Iowa City; Letter to Borges from Estonia; Letter to Borges in His Parlor; Only Bread, Only Light; Sheila Black; WAITING TO BE DANGEROUS: DISABILITY AND CONFESSIONALISM; Playing Dead; What You Mourn; Reconstruction; Objects Waiting to Be Dangerous; Raymond Luczak; LISTENING SIDEWAYS TO THE BEAT OF A POEM; Consonants; Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man; Ablutions of the Tongue; Hummingbirds; Anne Kaier; RIVER CREATURE; Cosseted; Accoutrements; The Examining Table; Hal Sirowitz; ZOMBIES ARE LOOSE.

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.

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