Beauty Is a Verb

384 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.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."[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 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."

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Soziale Aspekte
• ISBN: 9781935955054
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.10.2011
• Größe: 231 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Lee & Low Books
• Herausgegeben von: Michael Northen, Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black