Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability - Jennifer Bartlett

Category: Adults, Anthology, Misc. Non-fiction, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Disability Disability Studies Essays Social Justice

Written by Jennifer Bartlett
Read by Diontae Black, Paul Boehmer, Andrea Emmes
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.

Beauty is a Verb is a groundbreaking 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 fan of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections—”Foremothers and Forefathers,” “The Disability Poetics Movement,” and “A Language of New Embodiment”—gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole.

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 04-08-25