Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (The New Poetry of Disability)
Black, Sheila, Bartlett, Jennifer, Northen, Michael | Cinco Puntos Press
32,160원 | 20150707 | 9781935955054
"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"--
A ground-breaking anthology that brings fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability. For the reader of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections옜Foremothers and Forefathers,??he Disability Poetics Movement, and ? Language of New Embodiment옜gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole.
An ALA Notable Poetry Book. Beauty is a Verbis 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 ofIn 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." From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips travel down your spine, drink the smoothness of your skin. I am searching for the core: What is beautiful? Who decides? Can the laws of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come close. But beauty distances even as it draws me near. What does my body want from yours? My twisted legs around your neck. You bend me back. Even though you can't give the bones at birth I wasn't given, I let you deep inside. You give me-what? Peeling back my skin, you expose my missing bones. And my heart, long before you came, just as broken. I don't know who to blame. So each night, naked on the bed, my body doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If innocent, despite the flaws I wear, I am beautiful. Sheila Blackis a poet and children's book writer. Disability activistJennifer Bartlettis a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northenis a poet and the editor ofWordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.
Beauty is a Verbis 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 ofIn 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." From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips travel down your spine, drink the smoothness of your skin. I am searching for the core: What is beautiful? Who decides? Can the laws of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come close. But beauty distances even as it draws me near. What does my body want from yours? My twisted legs around your neck. You bend me back. Even though you can't give the bones at birth I wasn't given, I let you deep inside. You give me-what? Peeling back my skin, you expose my missing bones. And my heart, long before you came, just as broken. I don't know who to blame. So each night, naked on the bed, my body doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If innocent, despite the flaws I wear, I am beautiful. Sheila Blackis a poet and children's book writer. Disability activistJennifer Bartlettis a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northenis a poet and the editor ofWordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry. Beauty is a Verbis 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 ofIn 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." From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips travel down your spine, drink the smoothness of your skin. I am searching for the core: What is beautiful? Who decides? Can the laws of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come close. But beauty distances even as it draws me near. What does my body want from yours? My twisted legs around your neck. You bend me back. Even though you can't give the bones at birth I wasn't given, I let you deep inside. You give me-what? Peeling back my skin, you expose my missing bones. And my heart, long before you came, just as broken. I don't know who to blame. So each night, naked on the bed, my body doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If innocent, despite the flaws I wear, I am beautiful. Sheila Blackis a poet and children's book writer. In 2012, Poet Laureate Philip Levine chose her as a recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship. Disability activistJennifer Bartlettis a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northenis a poet and the editor ofWordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.
"We share roots, and many stories, but our different twang, our own breath animates these stories, making them sing as they are compressed against our specific bodies. 'Going home'--who does not long for connection, location, a place? I want foreigners to see how our country lies and find familiar living tales, sung with a different melody."--Petra Kuppers From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips travel down your spine, drink the smoothness of your skin. I am searching for the core: What is beautiful? Who decides? Can the laws of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come close. But beauty distances even as it draws me near. What does my body want from yours? My twisted legs around your neck. You bend me back. Even though you can't give the bones at birth I wasn't given, I let you deep inside. You give me--what? Peeling back my skin, you expose my missing bones. And my heart, long before you came, just as broken. I don't know who to blame. So each night, naked on the bed, my body doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If innocent, despite the flaws I wear, I am beautiful. Sheila Blackis a poet and children's book writer. Disability activist Jennifer Bartlettis a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northenis a poet and the editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.
"[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 attempts to--and 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
"This powerful anthology attempts to - and 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 "[ 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 "A groundbreaking collection, bringing together those, like Larry Eigner and Josephine Miles??nd powerful new voices, like Amber DiPietra and Rusty Morrison. As the poets and poems speak to - and sometimes argue with - one another, we see a new strain of poetry growing before or eyes. The effect is far more than cumulative: it is astonishing." - Anne Finger, author of Elegy for a Disease "This is a sensational, stunning book - one of the best literary collections in a very long time. We are speaking about powerful writing changing us - readers of Beauty is a Verbwill be mightily, irrevocably altered and enlarged - in ways we deeply need to be. Thank you authors and editors for a brilliant anthology." - Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Fuel "Revelatory, provocative, harrowing, and bold, the poems are also accompanied by personal essays that create thresholds into each poet's whys and wherefores. These voices range from the specific and personal to the abstract and philosophical, sweeping any reader - including the temporarily able - into the profoundest questions of how to live." - Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden "Immerse yourself in muscular poems of tenderness and intensity, intimate poems of eloquence and bluntness, profound poems that present disability's difficulty, challenge, and pride - all the while exploring the triumph of the human condition." - Marie Kane, author of Survivors in the Garden "[T]his insightful new collection deserves the widest audience possible." - NewPages Book Review
A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.
