Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of DisabilityJennifer Bartlett, Sheila Fiona Black, Michael Northen Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry. Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace. " BEAUTY IS A VERB] is going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century...the discourse between ability, identity & poetry will never be the same." --Ron Silliman, author of In The American Tree "This powerful anthology succeeds at intimately showing...disability through the lenses of poetry. What emerges from the book as a whole is a stunningly diverse array of conceptions of self and other."--Publishers Weekly, starred review From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips of your skin. I am searching for the core: of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come me near. What does my body want from yours? me back. Even though you can't give the bones You give me--what? Peeling back my skin, you before you came, just as broken. I don't know who doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If Sheila Black is a poet and children's book writer. In 2012, Poet Laureate Philip Levine chose her as a recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship. Disability activist Jennifer Bartlett is a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northen is a poet and the editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability. |
Contents
PREFACE by Jennifer Bartlett | 15 |
A SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICAN DISABILITY POETRY by Michael Northen | 18 |
EARLY VOICES | 25 |
THE DISABILITY POETICS MOVEMENT | 87 |
LYRICISM OF THE BODY | 165 |
TOWARDS A NEW LANGUAGE OF EMBODIMENT | 255 |
NOTES | 367 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 375 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 381 |
OTHER GREAT BOOKS FROM CINCO PUNTOS PRESS | 384 |
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Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability Sheila Black,Jennifer Bartlett,Michael Northen Limited preview - 2011 |