My Body, My House: Disability Poetics

A Poetry Mixtape Edited by Ashley-Elizabet...
The Poems
Spruce, inadequate, and alien
I stood at the side of the road
It was the only life I had.
...Let me be a ''poet of cripples" not
a patient etherized upon a table,
not a brain floating within a body.
In a moment I must be a body
in the place...
Dad reads aloud. I follow his finger across the page.
Sometimes his finger moves past words, tracing white space.
He makes the Moon say something new every night
to...
I'd like to close the distance between us:
where you end, where I begin,
but your skin stops me,
I can't find my way in.
If I could, I'd...
I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse...
Itwatches alwayswatches
It walks behind me in the park and proceeds
to...
bedtime ritual summon a stranger tonight you
linger on my laptop screen
in the apartment hallway a door slams like a...
The Fatigue is just fatigue. It
sprays my body like
a numbing agent. Say the
way I sleep might not be
working, say the way I eat
might not be working...
When the doctors burrowed into my body, they unearthed a slew of tumours. Growths speckled across lungs and kidneys. (Later, they would find the duo nestled into my cortex.) A Starry...
The Playlist
Recommended Reading
- Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
- Deluge by Leila Chatti
- Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
- The Danger Model by Madelaine Caritas Longman
- A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving by Katie Farris
- Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
- The Undying by Anne Boyer
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Frog Hollow Press Dis/Ability Series of Chapbooks
- Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
- The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc



