{"product_id":"the-way-disabled-people-love-each-other-9781834050300","title":"The Way Disabled People Love Each Other","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTonguebreaker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCare Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eand\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Future Is Disabled\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLambda Award-winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha returns with their long-awaited fifth collection of poems, written over five years of pandemic lockdown, during which time they lost cherished friends and comrades and met their estranged parents' end of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Way Disabled People Love Each Other\u003c\/em\u003e is a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. A book that will speak to any kind of griever, but particularly disabled QTBIPOC ones sitting with the endless mass grief and possibility of this time, and those with violent family from whom we still yearn to claw out beauty from the trauma rubble. It's a road map for survivors looking for something that's neither a happy Hollywood ending nor a transformative justice fairy tale--not the healing we wished for, but the healing we find anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is a rigorous, rueful documentation of a specific time of pandemic fascist grief and possibility. Brimming with odes, elegies, and mourning songs, these poems sparkle like switchblades and offer new possibilities for love, grief, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781834050300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/strong\u003e (they\/them) is the author or co-editor of ten books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eTonguebreaker\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice \u003c\/em\u003e(all Arsenal Pulp Press); and \u003cem\u003eBeyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement\u003c\/em\u003e (AK Press), co-edited with Ejeris Dixon. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Cordova Award winner, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister, and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers. They live in Philadelphia, PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48231878918301,"sku":"9781834050300","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_5bdaffbb-a510-43e6-85cf-0ecb660279f0.jpg?v=1778578139","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-way-disabled-people-love-each-other-9781834050300","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}