Beauty is a verb : the new poetry of disability

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Label

Beauty is a verb : the new poetry of disability

Title remainder

the new poetry of disability

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, & Michael Northen

Contributor

• Northen, Michael, 1946-
• Black, Sheila, (Sheila Fiona)
• Bartlett, Jennifer, 1969-

Editor

• Northen, Michael, 1946-
• Black, Sheila, (Sheila Fiona)
• Bartlett, Jennifer, 1969-

Subject

• American poetry
• American poetry -- 20th century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities
• Poetry
• People with disabilities, Writings of, American
• Poetry
• Poetry
• People with disabilities, Writings of, American
• People with disabilities -- Poetry
• People with disabilities
• POETRY -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
• 1900-2099
• trueAmerican poetry -- 21st century
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American | General

Genre

• truePoetry

Language

eng

Summary

"Beauty is a verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of each poet included. The collection explores first the precursors whose poems had a complex (and sometimes absent) relationship with disability, such as Vassar Miller, Larry Eigner, and Josephine Miles. It continues with poets who have generated the Crip Poetics Movement, such as Petra Kuppers, Kenny Fries, and Jim Ferris. Finally, the collection explores the work of poets who don't necessarily subscribe to the identity of "crip-poetics" and have never before been published in this exact context. These poets include Bernadette Mayer, Rusty Morrison, Cynthia Hogue, and C.S. Giscombe. The book crosses poetry movements--from narrative to language poetry--and speaks to and about a number of disabilities including cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness, multiple sclerosis, and aphasia due to stroke, among others"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.60809207

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS591.D57

LC item number

B43 2011

Literary form

poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography