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    Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability

    By Cinco Puntos Press

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    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.”<
    —Publishers Weekly, starred review


    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 Black is a poet and children's book writer. In 2012, Poet Laureate Philip Levine chose her as a recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship.

    Disability activist Jennifer Bartlett is a poet and critic with roots in the Language school.

    Michael Northen is a poet and the editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCinco Puntos Press
    Release dateOct 11, 2011
    ISBN9781935955375
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