Disability in Contemporary American Poetry : Radical Accessibility.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gould, Declan, author.

Series:

Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities.

Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities in literature.

Disabilities in literature.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed poetics and use the space of literature to launch alternative theories of psychiatric and physical disabilities.

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Disability as Constraint: the Typewriter Poetics of Larry Eigner's Another Time in Fragments and Hannah Weiner's Big Words 2. "a poesis / >of interdependence": Amber DiPietra, Denise Leto, and David Wolach's Collaborative Performance Poetry with(in) Pain 3. "metaphor allows / my body to be both": Metaphors of Illness and Healing in the Poetry of Eleni Stecopoulos and Brian Teare 4. Narrative Poeisis: Race and Psychiatric Disability in the Poetry of Bhanu Kapil and Claudia Rankine Conclusion

ISBN:

1-350-45648-9

1-350-45646-2

1-350-45647-0

9781350456464

OCLC:

1574119305