A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.

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.

For the reader of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression, this anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 10/11/2011
ISBN: 9781935955054
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011