The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked

The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology
By Sheila Black, Michael Northen, Annabelle Hayse

    When you’re disabled, you don’t have to be naked to be naked.

    Description

    “I remember I believed all my problems would be solved, if only I were beautiful. Then I was beautiful.” –Jonathan Mack, from his story “The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked.”

    Welcome to the worlds of the disabled. The physically disabled. The mentally disabled. The emotionally disabled. What does that word “disabled” mean anyway? Is there a right way to be crippled? Editors Sheila Black and Michael Northen (co-editors of the highly praised anthology Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability) join newcomer Annabelle Hayse to present short stories by Dagoberto Gilb, Anne Finger, Stephen Kuusisto, Thom Jones, Lisa Gill, Floyd Skloot, and others. These authors –all who experience the “disability” they write about — crack open the cage of our culture’s stereotypes. We look inside, and, through these people we thought broken, we uncover new ways of seeing and knowing.

    About the Creators

    Sheila Black

    Sheila Black is the author of over 40 books for children and young adults as well as the author of two poetry collections and two chapbooks. Black was chosen as one of the 2012 Witter Bynner fellowship recipients. She was born with X-Linked Hypophosphatemia (XLH), a rare genetic bone condition, often called Vitamin D Resistant Rickets. Two of her three children also have XLH.

    Michael Northen

    Michael Northen edits Wordgathering, A Journal of Disability and Poetry and coordinates the annual Inglis House Poetry Contest for disability-related poetry. For over 40 years, he has taught adults with physical disabilities, women on public assistance, prisoners, and rural and inner city children.

    Annabelle Hayse
    Annabelle Hayse

    Reviews

    • "This powerful anthology attempts to--and succeeds at--intimately showing. . .disability through the lenses of poetry. . .What emerges from the book as a whole is a stunningly diverse array of conceptions of self and other."

      - Publishers Weekly

    Paperback

  • ISBN 9781941026359
  • Publication Date Feb 07, 2017
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.9375 lbs
  • Page Count 352
  • Interests

  • Audience Adult
  • BISAC Category 1 FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC Category 2 FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs
  • BISAC Category 3 FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
  • Themes Disabilities, Fiction, Multiple Ethnicities Represented
  • Reading Levels

  • Guided Reading Adult
  • Interest Level Adult
  • Reading Level Adult
  • This Book is Included in These Collections:

    • 23
      Adult Fiction
      Collection of 23 books: $398.85

      The Bird Boys

      Sometimes the truth is not the truth, but murder is always murder. Which of the brothers carries the bloody knife?

      White Panties, Dead Friends

      "Byrd writes poems like a novelist. Epic ones. His lines are full of fiction, bullshit and beauty."--E.Myles

      The Price of Doing Business in Mexico

      The Mexican Border stands at the soul's edge with a port-of-entry leading directly into Byrd's poems.

      Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary

      Spoken plainly, all of us get born, then we go away. What shall we do in the meantime, huh?

      My Marriage A to Z

      A prose poem written in dictionary form, My Marriage A to Z is a unique chronicle of life within marriage.

      Letters to Goya

      Internationally acclaimed artist James Magee (alleged doppelganger of equally acclaimed artist Annabel Livermore) reinvents himself one more time as poet.

      The Last Cigarette on Earth

      A gay Latino's intimate journey through addiction, human desire and broken love.

      Elegies in Blue

      Saenz speaks from inside the skin of himself--Chicano, political being, spiritual seeker, family man and lover.

      Incantations

      Mayan women sing sacred magical woman poems.

      As Far As I Know

      Remember the poetry of William Stafford? Stafford's quiet wisdom? Good. Now listen up. Joseph Somoza wanders the same territory. Differently.

      The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked

      When you're disabled, you don't have to be naked to be naked.

      The Death of Bernadette Lefthand

      Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Ron Querry's haunting first novel about the mysterious death of a young Indian dancer is a stunning portrayl of the spirit and struggles of the Southwest's native peoples.

      When a Woman Rises

      Two Zapatista women, bound by cultural expectations, struggle to express the truth of their lives in the highlands of Chiapas.

      The Amado Women

      Four women, connected by birth, separated by secrets.

      Sofrito

      A Cuban-American travels to Havana searching for a secret recipe where he finds love and the truth about his father.

      Make It, Take It

      Witty and insightful, this isn't the college basketball we hear about on TV. And Bradburd knows what he's talking about.

      Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

      Sometimes the border is a mirror, sometimes it's an escape, and sometimes it's just the bridge you cross to go home.

      Conquistador of the Useless

      Sex is fun, but a baby? Why climb a mountain? What's your favorite band? A Grunge Generation novel of answers.

      Cold Type

      "You mean, you crossed the picket line right past your daddy and he took a swing at you?"

      A Woman, In Bed

      Simone sleeps with strangers. The most important stranger? Her husband Jacques. A love story spanning WWI to WWII in Paris.

      A Tightly Raveled Mind

      A psychoanalyst's sanity unravels when several patients die and she falls for the private investigator she's hired to help.

      Nobody's Pilgrims

      No Country for Old Men meets Contagion in this story of three teenagers on the run, carrying a great menace, and chased by a greater evil.

      A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

      A collection of short stories where Mexican-Americans grapple with their roots as their ambitions take them far from home.

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