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Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

1985

Description:

xviii, 146 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

People with disabilities--Literary collections.
American literature--20th century.
English literature--20th century.
Disabled Persons--Popular Works.
Literature--Collected Works.

Other Authors:

Miller, Vassar.

Contents:

To one deaf Mary Lucina. 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.

ISBN:

0292715501 (pbk.)
9780292715509 (pbk.)
9780292715509 (pbk.) :
0292715501 (pbk.) :
9780292724495
0292724497

LCCN:

85000632

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)