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Contents:
Old bones, new bones / Abby Simon -- 12 pieces of snow / Elisa Rowe -- Self-portrait as a glass doll / L Favicchia -- Afflicted / Debbie Strange -- Dying to survive / Allegra Keys -- To be a thing / Naomi Ortiz -- Ghosts / Kimberly Ann Priest -- The limits of curation / Jessica Suzanne Stokes -- Carrying my father's silence / Nnadi Samuel -- Heartbreak mornings / Chisom Okafor -- At night, when we think the other is sleeping / Sara Youngblood Gregory -- The first death / Rachel DL -- The weather / Heather Taylor-Johnson -- tethered / Kaylen "Writ" Phillips -- After the procedure / Ellen Samuels -- MRI lovepoem / Gemma Cooper-Novack -- C.P. God / Benjamin Bloom -- Known / L.A. Johnson -- A word not uttered / Noah Seback -- You never asked to be an oracle / Andy Jackson -- Unhomely / Andy Jackson -- Hysterosonogram / Margo LaPierre -- X-ray, three views, for an impression of osteoporosis / Jen Karetnick -- Strolling (2020-___) / Jessica Suzanne Stokes -- Survivor / Karl Knights -- Customary calculus for chronicity / Therí A. Pickens -- Daughter of strife / Susan Smolinski -- At the chiropractor / Haley Bell Keane -- figuratively / Geoffrey Aitken -- mouth wash / Geoffrey Aitken -- Pay attention / Dennis Etzel, Jr. -- Manifesting destiny (2020) / Charlee Huffman -- Portrait of chronic pain as every character from The Wire / RK Taylor -- Working with fibromyalgia / RK Taylor -- All of us & each of us too / Cali Linfor -- A woman indomitable (2018) / Charlee Huffman -- 2:30 am or something like it / Kathleen Downes -- The 20th surgery / Kathleen Downes -- A story of my body / Hilary Sun -- X in a well-ordered system / Jennifer Sutherland -- Sinking and breathing / Risa Peris -- hypnogogia disturbed / Korbin Jones -- The poem where I allow Dr. Phil to interview me / Katie Darby Mullins -- Dr. Phil and our dislocated shoulders / Katie Darby Mullins -- Becoming unlonely / Michèle Saint-Yves -- Fibromyalgia: Maledictions for morning / Judith Skillman -- Skin tags / Karl Knights -- In conversation with pain / S.J. Stephens -- Enemies without benefits / Caitlin Thomson -- Home movie from before the diagnosis / Raye Hendrix -- Spectral Evidence / Carolyn Oliver -- Body of pond / Sean Mahoney -- Quickie / Benjamin Bloom -- Dream street / Don Krieger -- Between colitis flares, expect the following symptoms / Eshani Surya -- Limbo / Margo LaPierre -- Secondary crime scene / Stephanie Heit -- A body memory / Kimberly Ann Priest -- Obvious: 1984 / Raymond Luczak -- Biohack manifesto / The Cyborg Jillian Weise -- The cape / Cath Nichols -- Dawn struck / Miriam Sagan -- Scarlet tanagers / Judith Skillman -- Enfleshed / Marina Tsaplina -- I was born with my arms fused in first position / Cali Linfor -- Asphalt Moses outside a Christian folk concert / Alyssa Radtke -- How to mount a sick-room TV / Karl Sherlock -- A medical history form asks, "Have you ever experienced suicidal thoughts or ideation?" / Sara Youngblood Gregory -- Vertigo / A.M. Juster -- In the monastery of a nice day to start again / Miriam Sagan -- Spider survival / Petra Kuppers -- Ode to my own body which I often find very ordinary / Haley Bell Keane -- Contributors.
Summary:
This book explores the intersections of disability and trauma through poetry that breaks open our understandings of what it means to live in a bodymind that doesn't quite fit. Both haunting and triumphant, this collection documents the interactions between disabled individuals and a world not set up for them, the necessity of community, and the resilience of living.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.