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Title Despite this flesh : the disabled in stories and poems / edited by Vassar Miller.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1985.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.8092 D468D    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 146 pages ; 24 cm
Contents At the school for the deaf / Robert Pawlowski -- Mutterings over the crib of a deaf child / James Wright -- Like the Hully-Gully but not so slow / Anne Finger -- My family is unhappy / Cheri Fein -- The sentry of Portoferraio / Daniel Mark Epstein -- Black lightning / Arthur Sze -- The lace maker / Barbara Howes -- Lying alone in the dismal winter mornings / Christy Brown -- The freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo -- Finch the spastic speaks / Gordon Weaver -- Charwoman ; Veteran's hospital / Ben Belitt -- Visit to the Institute for the Blind / Felix Pollak -- Stutterer / Alan Dugan -- The game / Harold Bond -- The stroke / Christopher Fahy -- The eye (part II.) / Richard Wilbur -- The ones that are thrown out / Miller Williams -- Average waves in unprotected waters / Anne Tyler -- The street / Natalie Petesch -- Beating and beatitude / James Corpora -- Silences / David Keller -- The glen / Josephine Jacobsen -- The grasshopper's burden / William Goyen -- The sacrifice / Fergus Reid Buckley -- The handicapped / Philip Dacey -- How Strump stood in the water / David Wagoner -- A late elegy for a baseball player / Felix Stefanile -- Seated nude / Richard Ronan -- Wrestling with angels / Walter McDonald -- After being paralyzed from the neck down for twenty years, Mr. Wallace gets a chin-operated motorized wheelchair / Ronald Wallace -- Recovery song / Barry Wallenstein -- Stumpfoot on 42nd Street / Louis Simpson -- 9:00 A.M. at Broadway and Walnut on your birthday / Ripley Schemm -- Bleeder / Hollis Summers -- Waiting for Happy / John Gilgun -- Saint Flannery / David Ray -- Pizarro teaches the mentally retarded to swim / Lee Bassett -- To one deaf Mary Lucina.
Subject People with disabilities -- Literary collections.
American literature -- 20th century.
English literature -- 20th century.
Disabled Persons -- Popular Works.
Literature.
Added Author Miller, Vassar.
ISBN 0292724497
0292715501 (paperback)
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