| Description |
ix, 414 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pony party / Lucy Grealy -- Walking with the Kurds / John Hockenberry -- Falling into life / Leonard Kriegel -- Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs -- Bells / Ved Mehta -- The unification of Stephen Hawking / Mark O'Brien -- Renascence / Margaret Robison -- Living in an unstable body / Barbara Rosenblum -- Imperfection is a beautiful thing : on disability and meditation / Joan Tollifson -- Midway : state fair ; The x-rays / Joan Aleshire -- The hemophiliac's motorcycle / Tom Andrews -- Little girl gone ; Banana stealing / Johnson Cheu -- How to talk to a new lover about cerebral palsy ; Learning to speak / Elizabeth Clare -- G-9 / Tim Dlugos -- Big eaves ; Quite a ways from the sky ; Flat unroofed body ; Rvrbrance / Larry Eigner -- Excavation ; Body language ; Beauty and variations / Kenny Fries -- The engines are roaring ; People love their freaks / Terry Galloway -- Cancer winter / Marilyn Hacker -- Back problems / David Manuel Hernández -- Talking books ; Learning braille at 39 ; Harvest / Stephen Kuusisto -- The magic wand ; Unsolicited looking glass / Lynn Manning -- The secret of the sea star ; Attention deficit disorder / Emma Morgan -- Heart ear / Edward Nobles -- From Contradictions : tracking poems / Adrienne Rich -- Open wound ; Harmonic convulsion / Tom Savage -- He watches the sky ; Hearing the sunrise / Nancy Scott -- Wolf from Cats don't fly / Marcia Clay -- Dancing after hours / Andre Dubus -- From Her sense of timing / Stanley Elkin -- Coitus interruptus / Mike Ervin -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- Ten reasons why Michael and Geoff never got it on / Raymond Luczak -- How much it hurts / David Mix -- The interview / Jean Stewart -- Selected scenes from P.H.*reaks : the hidden history of people with disabilities / Doris Baizley and Victoria Ann-Lewis (adaptors) -- Blue baby / Katinka Neuhof -- Mishuganismo / Susan Nussbaum. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
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People with disabilities -- United States -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Fries, Kenny, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0452279135 |
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