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Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir

Allison Blevins

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Description:"Allison Blevins’ lyric memoir, Handbook for the Newly Disabled, is a whirlwind of stunning and startling reflections on the body, disability, memory, and motherhood. Nostalgia blends with the present, a self trying to make sense of pain. 'What is left in my body to confess?' she asks. Those of us who have lived chronic pain and illness will find ourselves understanding all too well. Those who haven’t will gain new insights into what a disabled life can feel like. 'All of us will never be something we might have been. You see us smiling in our chairs, leaning on canes in commercials for pills and infusions. To love me, put your legs in ice.' Spending time immersed in the world of this book helped me, as a disabled person with chronic pain, feel seen and less alone."—Alana Saltz, author of The Uncertainty of Light and editor-in-chief of Blanket Sea PressHandbook for the Newly Disabled is a beautiful lyric memoir of disability: of the dailyness of grief, parenting, queerness, and pain in the setting of navigating illness. Allison Blevins writes gorgeously around, inside, and through illness, welcoming and challenging readers on every page, in every lyric turn.—Krys Malcom Belc, author of The Natural Mother of the ChildFor a very long time we have needed Allison Blevins' lyric memoir, Handbook for the Newly Disabled. The lyrics are in quintets with titles such as "Brain Fog" and "My Neurologist (Who Doesn’t Have MS) Explains Pain Is Not a Symptom of MS." For a very long time we have been reading books by physicians instead of books by disabled poets. "This is the chapter about hope. Fuck him," one line reads. "I’m alive in Missouri," another line reads. Blevins' lyric memoir expertly talks back to medical ableism and, more than that, makes self-determination into an art.—The Cyborg Jillian Weise, author of Cyborg Detective and The Amputee's Guide to SexAllison Blevins is the author of Slowly/Suddenly (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021) and Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2022). She is the author of the chapbooks Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022), Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). She is the Director of Small Harbor Publishing and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She lives in Missouri with her spouse and three children.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir. To get started finding Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 74

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ‎BlazeVOX

Release: 2022

ISBN: 1609643984

Description: "Allison Blevins’ lyric memoir, Handbook for the Newly Disabled, is a whirlwind of stunning and startling reflections on the body, disability, memory, and motherhood. Nostalgia blends with the present, a self trying to make sense of pain. 'What is left in my body to confess?' she asks. Those of us who have lived chronic pain and illness will find ourselves understanding all too well. Those who haven’t will gain new insights into what a disabled life can feel like. 'All of us will never be something we might have been. You see us smiling in our chairs, leaning on canes in commercials for pills and infusions. To love me, put your legs in ice.' Spending time immersed in the world of this book helped me, as a disabled person with chronic pain, feel seen and less alone."—Alana Saltz, author of The Uncertainty of Light and editor-in-chief of Blanket Sea PressHandbook for the Newly Disabled is a beautiful lyric memoir of disability: of the dailyness of grief, parenting, queerness, and pain in the setting of navigating illness. Allison Blevins writes gorgeously around, inside, and through illness, welcoming and challenging readers on every page, in every lyric turn.—Krys Malcom Belc, author of The Natural Mother of the ChildFor a very long time we have needed Allison Blevins' lyric memoir, Handbook for the Newly Disabled. The lyrics are in quintets with titles such as "Brain Fog" and "My Neurologist (Who Doesn’t Have MS) Explains Pain Is Not a Symptom of MS." For a very long time we have been reading books by physicians instead of books by disabled poets. "This is the chapter about hope. Fuck him," one line reads. "I’m alive in Missouri," another line reads. Blevins' lyric memoir expertly talks back to medical ableism and, more than that, makes self-determination into an art.—The Cyborg Jillian Weise, author of Cyborg Detective and The Amputee's Guide to SexAllison Blevins is the author of Slowly/Suddenly (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021) and Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2022). She is the author of the chapbooks Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022), Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). She is the Director of Small Harbor Publishing and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She lives in Missouri with her spouse and three children.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir. To get started finding Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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