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Laura Hershey : on the life & work of an American master / edited by Meg Day and Niki Herd.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.E774 L38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hershey, Laura, 1962-2010, author.
- Series:
- Unsung masters series
- The unsung masters series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- Hershey, Laura, 1962-2010--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hershey, Laura.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages : illustrations, facsimilies ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- On the life and work of an American master
- Place of Publication:
- Warrensburg, Missouri : Pleiades Press ; Houston : Gulf Coast, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. Her poems speak from the margins with the force of truth--eloquently, ferociously, and beautifully. This volume of the Unsung Masters Series, carefully curated by poets Meg Day and Niki Herd, reintroduces a wide selection of Hershey's writing to a new generation of readers. Also included are essays about her life and work by other poets and critics as well as a portfolio of photographs."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introductions
- "Stairs Start to Crumble All Over America with the Scratching of a Pen": Honoring Laura Hershey / Meg Day
- The Groundwork for a Movement: Poet and Disability Activist Laura Hershey / Niki Herd
- A Note About the Text
- SELECTED POEMS
- I Am, I Am Not
- If Faith
- In the Way
- Monster Body
- Message
- Lunch Break
- Insomnia
- canyon
- Sentence
- Orion on the Porch
- Delving
- We Weren't Carded
- All day i talk to my word processor
- The Gamble
- Working Together
- Hate, But
- The mom and pop print shop hop, or how eagles
- How to Write a Poem
- A Call to Arms
- Special Vans
- Telling
- Note from Oregon
- You Get Proud by Practicing
- Honor
- Translating the Crip
- Why I Am Not a Christian
- What Kind of Death
- Sex
- Sending a Message
- Rain Traffic
- Progress
- On the Lawn
- Petrona
- Petunias
- Etc.
- Fertility Goddess
- Pain Too
- Praise
- Oral History Project: Interviewing My Mother
- No Deal
- Morning Contact
- Loyalty
- Like Air
- Labors of Love
- Intermission
- Drink
- Don't Hold Hands While They Feed You
- Ill at Ease
- Hunger
- Hands
- The Ones Who Go to Jail
- Ghost
- Flights
- Fingers
- Eating
- Dusk
- Development
- Dawn-Pull
- The Cops vs. ADAPT
- Connection
- Big Clouds
- And She Will Also Want to Draw the Water
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- Adventure
- Conditioning
- A question of imagination
- Dreams of a Different Woman
- A Day
- SELECTED PROSE
- Remember
- PHOTO GALLERY
- Selected Images
- ESSAYS ON LAURA HERSHEY
- "I Go on Deciding on Pride": Writing as a Stay Against Erasure in the Poetry of Laura Hershey / Constance Merritt
- Reading Laura's Poems / Eli Clare
- Untranslatable Crip: Laura Hershey's Poetic Labor to Build Crip Power / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- "Your tire marks through the petunias": Laura Hershey's Queer, Crip Ecopoetics / Declan Gould.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780997099447
- 0997099445
- OCLC:
- 1099466383
- Publisher Number:
- 99985819772
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