Beauty is a verb
Subtitle: the new poetry of disability
By: edited by Jennifer  Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: El Paso, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781935955054
Subjects: People with disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities; People with disabilities, Writings of, American; American poetry; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry
Description: "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"--