{"product_id":"beauty-is-a-verb-9781935955054","title":"Beauty Is a Verb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeauty is a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrip Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisability Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoems with Disabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the reader of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression, this anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Black\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Bartlett\u003c\/b\u003e was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eDerivative of the Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e (UNM Press 2005), \u003ci\u003e(a) lullaby without any music\u003c\/i\u003e (Chax 2011), and \u003ci\u003eAnti-Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (Saint Elizabeth Street \/ Youth-in-Asia Press 2010). Bartlett is a cofounder of Zoeglossia, which is a literary organization that acts as a community for poets with disabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Northen\u003c\/b\u003e edits \u003ci\u003eWordgathering, A Journal of Disability and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cinco Puntos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185853432082,"sku":"9781935955054","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ab61a94-60fc-4603-921d-8818a3fcf7c2.jpg?v=1744589767","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beauty-is-a-verb-9781935955054","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}