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xv, 167 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
I'm listening as hard as I can / Terry Galloway -- Affliction / Murielle Minard -- Arthritis / Carolyn S. Foote -- From Ziante's time / Susan Downer -- Diminishment / Nancy Mairs -- And the true test came / Jo Brooks -- Pain / Carolyn Hardesty -- Resurrection of the right side / Muriel Rukeyser -- Angel is sick : nighttime / Adrienne Lee Lauby -- For a paralyzed woman raped and murdered while alone in her own apartment / Leslie A. Donovan -- In my disabled women's group / Barbara Ruth -- Learning to work / Dale Brown -- Seal-woman / Jo Brooks -- Self-portrait / Leslie A. Donovan -- Lame / Joyce Davies -- Insomniac's prayer / Vassar Miller -- The something that happened before I was born / Marsha Saxton -- Bedtime story / Murielle Minard -- On oxfords and plaster casts / Roberta Cepko -- Conversations at all hours / Nancy Mairs -- The bargain / Mary Grimley Mason -- Living upstairs, leaving home, and at the Moscow circus / Raymond Lifchez and Cheryl Davis -- Recurrences / Leslie A. Donovan -- I met Florence in room 43 / Kay Yasutome -- "I'm on a lot of committees" : an interview with Frances Deloatch / Marsha Saxton -- Recovery poem #4 / Barbara Ruth -- In search of liberation / Debra Kent -- For Tess Gallagher / Deborah Kendrick -- Incidental / Jean Stewart -- Significant others / Miriam Ylvisaker -- By her hands / Rebecca Gordon -- Shape / Nancy Mairs -- Faux pas / Vassar Miller -- A woman dead in her forties / Adrienne Rich -- From Walking through the fire : a hospital journal / Laurel Lee -- St. Roach ; Mendings / Muriel Rukeyser -- On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs -- Transit / Adrienne Rich -- From The body's memory / Jean Stewart -- Days of recovery / Carole Stone -- 20/20 with a twist / Deborah Kendrick -- The wards / Muriel Rukeyser -- A mistaken charity / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Love song for Easter even / Vassar Miller -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- What the fish feels / Jean Stewart. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page xv. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Women with disabilities -- Literary collections.
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Women -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Saxton, Marsha.
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Howe, Florence.
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| ISBN |
0935312625 paperback $12.95 |
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0935312617 hardcover $29.95 |
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