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| Title: | Staring back : the disability experience from the inside out / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenny Fries |
| ISBN: | 0452279135; 9780452279131 |
| Notes: | Also issued online. Content: 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. |
| Description: | ix, 414 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kenny Fries. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Staring back. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, c1997 (OCoLC)608379534 |
| Year: | c1997. |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 97015209 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: PS508.P56; Dewey No.: 810.8/0920816 |
| OCLC No.: | 36720167 |
Abstract:
Collects nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama by writers with disabilities, including Nancy Mairs, Marilyn Hacker, John Hockenberry, Adrienne Rich, and Mark O'Brien.
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