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• Beauty Is a Verb

  the New Poetry of Disability

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  Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities.

• Deaf Republic

  Poems

  Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977-

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  Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a Deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Walking With Ghosts

  Driskill, Qwo-Li,

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  Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, Walking with Ghosts: Poems confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting ongoing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Voyage of the Sable Venus

  and Other Poems

  Lewis, Robin Coste,

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  Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self.

• Content Warning: Everything

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  Crafted of both divine and earthly materials, these poems travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival, while mapping out a chosen family that includes the son of god, mary auntie, and magdalene with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bodymap

  Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

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  Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-color love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice.

• Have Dog, Will Travel

  a Poet's Journey

  Kuusisto, Stephen,

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  Kuusisto, a blind poet, describes how being laid off from his job as a small college town professor led him into acquiring his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave him a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.

• The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

  Poems

  Brown, Molly McCully, 1991-

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  These poems explore the haunted legacy of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, a medical institution at the heart of the eugenics movement in the first half of 20th century America.

• Deluge

  Chatti, Leila, 1990-

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  The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection's themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction.

• Starshine & Clay

  Moon, Kamilah Aisha,

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  Addressing tough circumstances tenderly, this book is about life--what we inherit, what we create, what shapes us, what's possible.

• Slingshot

  Johnson, Cyree Jarelle,

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  In these messy, desperate poems spun from dream logic, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson considers the consequences of Black sexual and gender deviance, as well as the emotional burden of being forced to the rim of society, then punished for what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Odes to Lithium

  Erlichman, Shira,

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  Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar Disorder. With inventiveness, compassion, and humor, she thrusts us into a world of unconventional praise.

• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

  greathouse, torrin a.

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  A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival.