Beauty Is a Verb

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body,...
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Author: Sheila Black
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Beauty Is a Verb by Black, Sheila

Beauty Is a Verb

$44.95

Beauty Is a Verb

$44.95
Author: Sheila Black
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.

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.

For the reader of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression, this anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body.



Author: Sheila Black
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781935955054


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Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011

About the Author
Black, Sheila: - Sheila Black is the author of over 40 books for children and young adults as well as the author of two poetry collections and two chapbooks. She was born with X-Linked Hypophosphotema (XLH), a rare genetic bone condition, often called Vitamin D Resistent Rickets. Two of her three children also have XLH.Bartlett, Jennifer: - Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her publications include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2005), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011), and Anti-Autobiography (Saint Elizabeth Street/ Youth-in-Asia Press 2010).Northen, Michael: - Michael Northen edits Wordgathering, A Journal of Disability and Poetry and coordinates the annual Inglis House Poetry Contest for disability-related poetry. For over 40 years, he has taught adults with physical disabilities, women on public assistance, prisoners, and rural and inner city children.

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