Toward Solomon's Mountain: The Experience of Disability in Poetry

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877224161
• ISBN13: 9780877224167
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Temple Univ Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.

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Toward Solomon's Mountain

Serious, tough-minded non-sentimental poems on the experience of disability are collected here for the first time. This unique anthology shows with profound objectivity the human experiences shared by handicapped people that cause them to be bound to and yet set apart from "normal" society. As a result of recent political action by the "invisible" minority of disabled and handicapped Americans, these citizens can now enjoy equal educational opportunities, access to public buildings nad services, and fuller social participation. The impact of these reforms has allowed disabled artists to stand back and view their experience with a new objectivity. They have, as this volume so abundantly shows, achieved the personal distance necessary for the creation of good, intensely personal poetry. Thirty-five poets describe their victories, their frustrations, and their lives in a rich emotional range from humor to anger. As the only full-length anthology devoted to the theme of disability, the publication of Toward Solomon's Mountain is an event. It will be noted gratefully by poetry enthusiasts, by those in the field of special education, and by the disabled whose experience is at last articulated in art. The editors have gathered together works by the following poets: John Mann Astrachan, Michael Bachstein, H. N. Beckerman, Harold Bond, Michael Cleary, Norma Thomas Colvin, William D. Crago, John Crosson, Marilyn Davis, Nedine Davis, Susan L. Dunn, Vivienne Finch, S. L. Friedman, Mary R. Gaumond, Jan Glading, Frederica Goldsmith, Jack Hand, Edward L. Hooper, Deborah Kendrick, Norman Andrew Kiek, Neil Marcus, Gloria Maxson, Vassar Miller, Janice Townley Moore, Lillian Morrison, Dixie Partridge, Felix Pollak, Robin Gathany Shea, Sharon A. Stern, Laurie Stroblas, Constance E. Studer, Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Evelyn Thomas, James Weigel, Jr., and zana. --- from book's dustjacket