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Title:
Despite this flesh : the disabled in stories and poems / edited by Vassar Miller.
Author:
Miller, Vassar.
Publication Information:
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1985.
Call Number:
PS509.P58 D48 1985
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780292724495

9780292715509
Physical Description:
xviii, 146 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 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 / Charwoman ; Veteran's hospital / Visit to the Institute for the Blind / Stutterer / The game / The stroke / The eye (part II.) / 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 / The handicapped / How Strump 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 / 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
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