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Staring Back

by Kenny Fries

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Table of 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 Hernâandez — 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.xreaks : the hidden history of people with disabilities / Doris Baizley and Victoria Ann-Lewis (adaptors) — Blue baby / Katinka Neuhof — Mishuganismo / Susan Nussbaum.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780452279131
Subtitle:
The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
Editor:
Fries, Kenny
Author:
Fries, Kenny
Publisher:
Plume
Location:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Human Services
Subject:
Handicapped
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Collections and anthologies
Subject:
American literature (collections)
Subject:
Physically handicapped
Subject:
Handicapped and the arts
Subject:
American literature -- 20th century.
Subject:
Physically handicapped, Writings of the, American.
Subject:
Physically handicapped -- United States -- Literary collections.
Subject:
People with disabilities
Subject:
People with disabilities, Writings of, American
Subject:
General Political Science
Series Volume:
no. 77-172
Publication Date:
19971001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
9.05x6.04x.97 in. 1.02 lbs.

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