Beauty is a verb : the new poetry of disability /
Beauty is a verb : the new poetry of disability /
edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, & Michael Northen.
- First edition.
- 383 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / A short history of American disability poetry / Early voices. Missing Larry : the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner / From Codeine diary ; The hemophiliac's motorcycle / Swimming on concrete : the poetry of Vassar Miller / If I had wheels or love ; Dramatic monologue in the speaker's own voice ; The common core ; Subterfuge / Less ; Proem ; Stiege / The voice of "reason" / Doll ; Album ; Motive ; Intensives ; Payment / The disability poetics movement. Keeping the knives sharp ; Poet of cripples ; Normal ; Poems with disabilities ; From the surgeons : Drs. Sofield, Louis, Hank, Alfini, Millar, Baehr, Bevan-Thomas, Tsatsos, Erickson, and Brennan ; Lost Hyoid / From Staring back : The disability experience from the inside out ; Excavation ; Body language ; Beauty and variations / The sound of the bones ; The origin of my wheelchair ; Crip music ; From Speherical song cycle / Line breaks the way I see them ; School for the blind ; Broken reverie ; About Chester Kowalski I don't know much ; A few things / Getting comfortable ; Working together ; Telling ; Morning ; Thousand island / 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 / Helen Keller : Obsession and muse ; On the subway ; Ashes : Rome, 1946 ; She loved hot dogs so much ; The sun is warm : Nagasaki, 1948 / Translating and reading ASL poetry ; Deaf blind : Three squared Cinquain ; Clamor ; Beach baseball ; Long goodbyes / Lyricism of the body. And now I see ; Mosquito ; It had only been dead a few hours ; Other good ; And not more may I be / Reshaping the outline ; Hypoesthesia ; The shaking ; Seizure, or seduction of persephone ; Dysaesthesia / Lying meditation ; 5 poems from The empty form goes all the way to heaven / A conscious decision ; Hemiplegia ; No ; Prologue ; Because you can't see my photographs ; We are everywhere / Digressions on poetry, prose and a Lingonberry bush ; Letter to Borges from Houston, Texas ; Borges : They are knocking the wind out of me in Iowa City ; Letter Borges from Estonia ; Letter to Borges in his parlor ; Only bread, only light / Waiting to be dangerous : Disability and confessionalism ; Playing dead ; What you mourn ; Reconstruction ; Objects waiting to be dangerous / Jennifer Bartlett -- Michael Northen -- Michael Davidson ; [Six poems] / Larry Eigner ; Tom Andrews ; Jill Alexander Essbaum ; Vassar Miller ; Robert Fagan ; Susan Schweik ; Josephone Miles -- Jim Ferris ; Kenny Fries ; Petra Kuppers ; Daniel Simpson ; Laura Hershey ; Jillian Weise ; Kathi Wolfe ; John Lee Clark -- Alex Lemon ; Laurie Clements Lambeth ; Brian Teare ; Ona Gritz ; Stephen Kuusisto ; Sheila Black. Listening sideways to the beat of a poem ; Consonants ; Instructions to hearing persons desiring a deaf man ; Ablutions of the tongue ; Hummingbirds / River creature ; Cosseted ; Accoutrements ; The examining table / Zombies are loose ; A step above cows ; Legal drugs ; A famous ball player ; Avoiding rigidity / Mapping Caesura : The encompassing body ; From The relenting : A play of sorts ; Wicker-work : A sestina for Zukofsky ; My inquietude constrained briefly by Louise Bogan ; The Undering and other great inhumanities on 3.6 acres / Toward a new language of embodiment. Why I am not a translator-- Take 2 ; Speech production : Themes and variations / On a line by Willie McTell ; From Giscome Road (Northern Road, 2) ; From Prairies style : Two monster poems / From My notebook has a rigid spine or how to operate the body in writing ; Bunny baby fast and slow / "Hearing a pear" : The poetry reading on a new frequency ; Afraid of the rake ; The magic word is Partager ; Spelling down ; Theodore Enslin, poet of Maine / Oulipo at the laundromat ; Plaza series.1 ; The lost word association ; 26 tries ; Crane of angles / Exit through the gift shop ; [5 poems from] Autobiography / The creature within : On poetry and dis/ability ; Green surrounds the mind of summer ; In a mute season Radical optimism / Meat life ; In this plate my illness is visible ; In this plate my illness is a wire that can easily cut meat and bone ; In this plate I receive my first diagnosis ; In this plate my traumadome has come unzippered ; In this plate my illness splits time / Raymond Luczak ; Anne Kaier ; Hal Sirowitz ; Lisa Gill -- Norma Cole ; C.S. Giscombe ; Amber DiPietra ; Ellen McGrath Smith ; Denise Leto ; Jennifer Bartlett ; Cynthia Hogue ; Danielle Pafunda. To saturate the matter of the present ; Ill-timed (23.1) & Ill-timed (24.2) ; Ill-timed (24.3) ; Ill-timed (24.4) ; Ill-timed (24.5) / Body maps and distraction zones ; (Muted domestic pornography) ; 3. (Corporeal punishment) ; (Forced feeding 1) / Benign bone tumor city ; Self-portrait with framing effect ; Breton's song of the lark ; Fairytale : How spring comes to the land of snow and icicles ; (Dream map) ; Wanting to be a girl / Poetics/"Exhibits" ; Exhibit "H" ; Exhibit "U" / Statement on poetics ; Sonnet Edmund Leites ; 4th of July demon moped ; Chosca mass tinek ; Eyjafjallajokull / Rusty Morrison ; David Wolach ; Kara Dorris ; Gretchen E. Henderson ; Bernadette Mayer.
"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"--
9781935955054 1935955055
99974885784
2011022269
1900-2099
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry--20th century.
People with disabilities--Poetry.
Disabled Persons--psychology.
Poetry as Topic.
Beauty.
Literature, Modern.
POETRY--Anthologies (multiple authors)
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--American--General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors.)
POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors).
American poetry.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
Handicapped.--Poetry.
American poetry.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
United States.
Lyric poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Poetry.
Prose poems.
Poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Prose poems.
Lyric poetry.
PS591.D57 / B43 2011
811/.60809207
2014 M-413 PS 591.D57
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / A short history of American disability poetry / Early voices. Missing Larry : the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner / From Codeine diary ; The hemophiliac's motorcycle / Swimming on concrete : the poetry of Vassar Miller / If I had wheels or love ; Dramatic monologue in the speaker's own voice ; The common core ; Subterfuge / Less ; Proem ; Stiege / The voice of "reason" / Doll ; Album ; Motive ; Intensives ; Payment / The disability poetics movement. Keeping the knives sharp ; Poet of cripples ; Normal ; Poems with disabilities ; From the surgeons : Drs. Sofield, Louis, Hank, Alfini, Millar, Baehr, Bevan-Thomas, Tsatsos, Erickson, and Brennan ; Lost Hyoid / From Staring back : The disability experience from the inside out ; Excavation ; Body language ; Beauty and variations / The sound of the bones ; The origin of my wheelchair ; Crip music ; From Speherical song cycle / Line breaks the way I see them ; School for the blind ; Broken reverie ; About Chester Kowalski I don't know much ; A few things / Getting comfortable ; Working together ; Telling ; Morning ; Thousand island / 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 / Helen Keller : Obsession and muse ; On the subway ; Ashes : Rome, 1946 ; She loved hot dogs so much ; The sun is warm : Nagasaki, 1948 / Translating and reading ASL poetry ; Deaf blind : Three squared Cinquain ; Clamor ; Beach baseball ; Long goodbyes / Lyricism of the body. And now I see ; Mosquito ; It had only been dead a few hours ; Other good ; And not more may I be / Reshaping the outline ; Hypoesthesia ; The shaking ; Seizure, or seduction of persephone ; Dysaesthesia / Lying meditation ; 5 poems from The empty form goes all the way to heaven / A conscious decision ; Hemiplegia ; No ; Prologue ; Because you can't see my photographs ; We are everywhere / Digressions on poetry, prose and a Lingonberry bush ; Letter to Borges from Houston, Texas ; Borges : They are knocking the wind out of me in Iowa City ; Letter Borges from Estonia ; Letter to Borges in his parlor ; Only bread, only light / Waiting to be dangerous : Disability and confessionalism ; Playing dead ; What you mourn ; Reconstruction ; Objects waiting to be dangerous / Jennifer Bartlett -- Michael Northen -- Michael Davidson ; [Six poems] / Larry Eigner ; Tom Andrews ; Jill Alexander Essbaum ; Vassar Miller ; Robert Fagan ; Susan Schweik ; Josephone Miles -- Jim Ferris ; Kenny Fries ; Petra Kuppers ; Daniel Simpson ; Laura Hershey ; Jillian Weise ; Kathi Wolfe ; John Lee Clark -- Alex Lemon ; Laurie Clements Lambeth ; Brian Teare ; Ona Gritz ; Stephen Kuusisto ; Sheila Black. Listening sideways to the beat of a poem ; Consonants ; Instructions to hearing persons desiring a deaf man ; Ablutions of the tongue ; Hummingbirds / River creature ; Cosseted ; Accoutrements ; The examining table / Zombies are loose ; A step above cows ; Legal drugs ; A famous ball player ; Avoiding rigidity / Mapping Caesura : The encompassing body ; From The relenting : A play of sorts ; Wicker-work : A sestina for Zukofsky ; My inquietude constrained briefly by Louise Bogan ; The Undering and other great inhumanities on 3.6 acres / Toward a new language of embodiment. Why I am not a translator-- Take 2 ; Speech production : Themes and variations / On a line by Willie McTell ; From Giscome Road (Northern Road, 2) ; From Prairies style : Two monster poems / From My notebook has a rigid spine or how to operate the body in writing ; Bunny baby fast and slow / "Hearing a pear" : The poetry reading on a new frequency ; Afraid of the rake ; The magic word is Partager ; Spelling down ; Theodore Enslin, poet of Maine / Oulipo at the laundromat ; Plaza series.1 ; The lost word association ; 26 tries ; Crane of angles / Exit through the gift shop ; [5 poems from] Autobiography / The creature within : On poetry and dis/ability ; Green surrounds the mind of summer ; In a mute season Radical optimism / Meat life ; In this plate my illness is visible ; In this plate my illness is a wire that can easily cut meat and bone ; In this plate I receive my first diagnosis ; In this plate my traumadome has come unzippered ; In this plate my illness splits time / Raymond Luczak ; Anne Kaier ; Hal Sirowitz ; Lisa Gill -- Norma Cole ; C.S. Giscombe ; Amber DiPietra ; Ellen McGrath Smith ; Denise Leto ; Jennifer Bartlett ; Cynthia Hogue ; Danielle Pafunda. To saturate the matter of the present ; Ill-timed (23.1) & Ill-timed (24.2) ; Ill-timed (24.3) ; Ill-timed (24.4) ; Ill-timed (24.5) / Body maps and distraction zones ; (Muted domestic pornography) ; 3. (Corporeal punishment) ; (Forced feeding 1) / Benign bone tumor city ; Self-portrait with framing effect ; Breton's song of the lark ; Fairytale : How spring comes to the land of snow and icicles ; (Dream map) ; Wanting to be a girl / Poetics/"Exhibits" ; Exhibit "H" ; Exhibit "U" / Statement on poetics ; Sonnet Edmund Leites ; 4th of July demon moped ; Chosca mass tinek ; Eyjafjallajokull / Rusty Morrison ; David Wolach ; Kara Dorris ; Gretchen E. Henderson ; Bernadette Mayer.
"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"--
9781935955054 1935955055
99974885784
2011022269
1900-2099
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry--20th century.
People with disabilities--Poetry.
Disabled Persons--psychology.
Poetry as Topic.
Beauty.
Literature, Modern.
POETRY--Anthologies (multiple authors)
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--American--General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors.)
POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors).
American poetry.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
Handicapped.--Poetry.
American poetry.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
United States.
Lyric poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Poetry.
Prose poems.
Poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Prose poems.
Lyric poetry.
PS591.D57 / B43 2011
811/.60809207
2014 M-413 PS 591.D57