Despite this Flesh : : The Disabled in Stories and Poems / / ed. by Vassar Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bassett, Lee,; Beliti, Ben,; Belitt, Ben,; Bond, Harold,; Brown, Christy,; Corpora, James,; Dacey, Philip,; Dugan, Alan,; Epstein, Daniel Mark,; Fahy, Christopher,; Fein, Cheri,; Finger, Anne,; Gilgun, John,; Goyen, William,; Howes, Barbara,; Hugo, Richard,; Jacobsen, Josephine,; Keller, David,; Lucina, Sister Mary,; Mcdonald, Walter,; Pawlowski, Robert,; Petesch, Natalie,; Pollak, Felix,; Ray, David,; Reid Buckley, Fergus,; Ronan, Richard,; Schemm, Ripley,; Simpson, Louis,; Stefanile, Felix,; Summers, Hollis,; Sze, Arthur,; Tyler, Anne,; Wagoner, David,; Wallace, Ronald,; Wallenstein, Barry,; Weaver, Gordon,; Wilbur, Richard,; Williams, Miller,; Wright, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Miller, Vassar,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Killed by kindness, stifled by overprotection, choked by subtle if sometimes unconscious snubs, the physically handicapped are one of the world's most invisible minorities. Seeking to draw attention to the various attitudes and perceptions about the handicapped, renowned poet Vassar Miller has assembled this collection of short stories and poems culled from the best of contemporary literature. The forty-five works focus on characters with motor and/or sensory disabilities. Ranging from optimistic to embittered and from sentimental to realistic, they portray the handicapped and the family; the handicapped and society; the myth of the holy idiot; the handicapped as human being, good, evil, and indifferent; the handicapped as unique. Both instructional and entertaining, this book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, including the handicapped themselves. It will be especially helpful to professionals in the medical, education, and social service fields. As Vassar Miller says in her introduction, ". the book is meant as a midwife in bringing to birth a renewed understanding of all human beings as so many mirrors of God, however seemingly distorted ."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Yoke in His Youth -- At the School for the Deaf -- Mutterings over the Crib of a Deaf Child -- Like the Hully-Gully but Not So Slow -- My Family Is Unhappy -- The Wrestled Angel -- The Sentry of Portoferraio -- Black Lightning -- The Lace Maker -- Lying Alone in the Dismal Winter Mornings -- The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field -- Finch the Spastic Speaks -- In Body, a Passenger, and Rumpled -- Charwoman -- Veteran)s Hospital -- Visit to the Institute for the Blind -- Stutterer -- The Game -- The Stroke -- The Eye (Part II) -- Beam in the Eye -- The Ones That Are Thrown Out -- Average Waves in Unprotected Waters -- The Street -- Beating and Beatitude -- Silences -- The Glen -- The Grasshopper)s Burden -- The Sacrifice -- An Unrung Bell -- The Handicapped -- How Stump Stood in the Water -- A Late Elegy for a Baseball Player -- Seated Nude -- Wrestling with Angels -- After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years) Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair -- Recovery Song -- Stumpfoot on 42nd Street -- 9:00 A.M. at Broadway and Walnut on Your Birthday -- Bleeder -- Waiting for Happy -- Saint Flannery -- Pizarro Teaches the Mentally Retarded to Swim -- To One Deaf