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Title:

Staring back : the disability experience from the inside out / edited by Kenny Fries.

Publisher:

Plume,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

ix, 414 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities--United States--Literary collections.
American literature--20th century.

Other Authors:

Fries, Kenny, 1960-

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 Hernández -- 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.*reaks : the hidden history of people with disabilities / Doris Baizley and Victoria Ann-Lewis (adaptors) -- Blue baby / Katinka Neuhof -- Mishuganismo / Susan Nussbaum.

ISBN:

9780452279131
0452279135

LCCN:

97015209

Locations:

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

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)