Beauty Is a Verb

A ground-breaking anthology that brings fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability. For the reader of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections¿¿Foremothers and Forefathers,¿ ¿The Disability Poetics Movement, and ¿A Language of New Embodiment¿¿gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole.