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Laura Hershey : on the life & work of an American master
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"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, an...
"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."--
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- edited by Meg Day and Niki Herd
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- English
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- Warrensburg, Missouri : Pleiades Press ; Houston, Texas : Gulf Coast, 2019
- ©2019
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- 249 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimilies ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780997099447, 0997099445
- OCLC
- on1099466383
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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 -- One King Bed, Non-Smoking, Conference Rate, Access -- 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