Disability in contemporary American poetry : radical accessibility /
"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. Using an approach that centers on writers with disabil...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2026.
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| Series: | Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities.
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| 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. Using an approach that centers on writers with disabilities, it argues that formal experimentation makes poetry more accessible to writers living with disabilities and illnesses by providing the space to create poetic forms for thinking the world and self"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350456457 1350456454 9781350456495 1350456497 |