{"product_id":"every-place-on-the-map-is-disabled-poems-and-essays-paperback-softback-9780810149731","title":"Every Place on the Map Is Disabled; Poems and Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810149731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEvery Place on the Map Is Disabled\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems and Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCamisha L. Jones (Edited by), Michael Northen (Edited by), Naomi Ortiz (Edited by), Travis Chi Wing Lau (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810149731, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 2 figures\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This vital gathering of creative and critical works returns to the essential questions, practices, and affirmations that were initiated with \u003ci\u003eBeauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e. With this anthology the circle is widened, bringing a stunning array of intersectional writing that celebrates the essential stories from the community about love, grief, beauty, anger, and survival while also advocating for what is just and what is necessary. The works within challenge expectation and rejoice in possibility. The work of the creators and makers collected in this volume is absolutely essential in these times.” —Oliver de la Paz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Diaspora Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Expansive, full of beauty and surprises. The profound impact which Disability Poetics has on literature is clear throughout this anthology, which continues and diversifies the work of\u003ci\u003e Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Kenny Fries, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Province of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e and curator of the \u003ci\u003eDisability Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e video series \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t“Most of us have long avoided the truth so plainly and beautifully shared in the essays and poems inside \u003ci\u003eEvery Place on the Map is Disabled\u003c\/i\u003e. Put simply, most of us will one day be disabled. To avoid this truth is to forfeit the power, intimacy, fear, and fortitude so expertly rendered by these authors. If every place on the the map is indeed disabled, I offer a deep bow to the complex and divine cartography of this book.” —Sonya Renee Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn anthology of poems and craft essays by and celebrating Disabled writers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Declaring that Disabled people exist, innovate, thrive, and persevere, \u003ci\u003eEvery Place on the Map Is Disabled\u003c\/i\u003e imagines the world we deserve. Its contributors spotlight the wisdom Disabled people embody from living within and navigating the economic and medical systems, communities, and families that often oppress their existence. This anthology is an intersectional compass pointing to the creative ways Disabled people build bridges to each other through Disability poetics and perspectives. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The contributing poets write about love, resistance, loss, pain, beauty, and culture. They capture tender and life-affirming moments where one Disabled person recognizes themself in another. The essays illustrate how Disability poetics suggest avenues for embracing the full spectrum of disability experiences. \u003ci\u003eEvery Place on the Map Is Disabled\u003c\/i\u003e offers students, scholars, members of disability communities, and any reader a direction for paving a wider path toward a collective survival.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword: A New Possible \u003cbr\u003eSheila Black\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A History and Q\u0026amp;A\u003cbr\u003eMichael Northen, Camisha L. Jones, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Naomi Ortiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Intimacies and Interdependence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Ortiz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: To Reclaim Power\u003cbr\u003eBenefaction\u003cbr\u003eY2K Philadelphia (That time we met)\u003cbr\u003eShelter Is a Privilege (one \u0026amp; two)\u003cbr\u003eTo the Non-Disabled White Grrrl with the Frida Kahlo Altar in the Living Room\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiv Mammone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Art Object, Talisman\u003cbr\u003eSurgery Psalm\u003cbr\u003eReinventing the Scale\u003cbr\u003eA Crip Is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Why We Do This Thing Called Disability Justice Writing\u003cbr\u003eI know crips live here\u003cbr\u003eBad road\u003cbr\u003eAdaptive device\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEkiwah Adler-Belendez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: On Writing \"I Bargained For This Wheelchair\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Speed of Sound: Skydiving from one life to another  \u003cbr\u003eLa velocidad del sonido: Saltando de una vida a otra (trans. Kenia Cano)\u003cbr\u003eFalling into Truth\u003cbr\u003eEn Verdad Caer (trans. Kenia Cano)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Besemer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: PERMEABLE\u003cbr\u003eeleven\u003cbr\u003eWhere the Loved Ones Go\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eViktoria Valenzuela\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: My Fibromyalgia, Like My Poetry, Is a Response to Trauma\u003cbr\u003eThe Scent of a Battle\u003cbr\u003eThank You to the Dust\u003cbr\u003eNightly News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOsimiri Sprowal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: A QueerCrip Reflection on Intimacy and Boundary Building\u003cbr\u003eHearth: A QueerCrip Break-up Manifesto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: A Place That's Ours\u003cbr\u003eDear M—\u003cbr\u003eDear S—\u003cbr\u003eDear M—\u003cbr\u003eDear S—\u003cbr\u003eDear M—\u003cbr\u003eDear S—\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Scoggins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Magic Consortium of Poetic Disabled Lives\u003cbr\u003eGuide to Magic Helium\u003cbr\u003eVivid Dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Sluman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Suspended Disability and the importance of disability poetry\u003cbr\u003emy love is sponsored by the warmth of opiates\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; this is love\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShahd Alshammari\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Navigating a Hijacked Body with Two Tongues\u003cbr\u003ePublic Disgrace\u003cbr\u003eMeaninglessness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid James \"DJ\" Savarese\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Squawking Joy and Mayhem\u003cbr\u003eThe Librarian in the Trees\u003cbr\u003eSwoon\u003cbr\u003eTongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003etorrin a. greathouse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Poems with Bodies Like Mine\u003cbr\u003eWeeds\u003cbr\u003eAbecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat's So Lame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay Fragment: Economic Model of Disability\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Stokes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: all the floors I know too well from trying not to trip are one thick memory\u003cbr\u003eNew Shoes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGaia Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Hold It against me\u003cbr\u003eV\u003cbr\u003eVI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Reading Celan in Ukraine\u003cbr\u003eThat Map of Bone and Open Valves\u003cbr\u003eIn a Time of Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConstance Merritt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Some Notes on a (Dis)\/Embodied Poetics\u003cbr\u003eJay-Walkin Blues\u003cbr\u003eRevelation Blues\u003cbr\u003eLess Than Greater Than Blues\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Ableism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurora Levins-Morales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Why and the How: Disability Justice Poetics\u003cbr\u003ePoem for the Bedridden\u003cbr\u003eAsher Yatzar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoxanna Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: You Were Born, Ergo, I Love You\u003cbr\u003e\"What do you do for a living?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Wherever You Go, There You Are\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeg Day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: T-I-M-B-E-R\u003cbr\u003eDeaf Erasure of the Gospel According to the TSA Agent at Atlanta International\u003cbr\u003eElegy in Translation\u003cbr\u003e10am Is When You Come to Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Lightbown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Searching for Dignity\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Check In\u003cbr\u003eGrounded\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLateef McLeod\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: How Poetry Can Evoke Empathy and Meaning\u003cbr\u003eAbsence of routine\u003cbr\u003eSo Much\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Khoury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Unimagined Possibilities\u003cbr\u003eCranial Nerve II\u003cbr\u003eAN OBJECT APPROACHES THE I\u003cbr\u003e[rotary nystagmus]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKay Ulanday Barrett \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: We Will Buoy Each Other\u003cbr\u003eSick 4 Sick\u003cbr\u003eI use the word Disabled\u003cbr\u003eIn which your white doctor informs you that he was in the Navy \u0026amp; based in the Philippines\u003cbr\u003econsider the gender spectrum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond Antrobus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Is There a Right Way to Act Deaf [Captioned]\u003cbr\u003eTwo Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris\u003cbr\u003eThe Mechanism of Speech\u003cbr\u003eThe Acceptance\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Medicalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Heit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Disability as a Creative Practice\u003cbr\u003eTreatment Room\u003cbr\u003eRecovery Bay\u003cbr\u003eDear Brain,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilia Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: A Note on the Poetry and Poetics of Dissonant Disabilities\u003cbr\u003eTremors\u003cbr\u003eEmotional Lability\u003cbr\u003ePolyphagia\u003cbr\u003eHypertensive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravis Chi Wing Lau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Crip Poetics of Pain\u003cbr\u003eTreatment\u003cbr\u003eOn the Anniversary of an X-Ray\u003cbr\u003eBrain Fog\u003cbr\u003ePithy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Davio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Essay: A Little Pocket for Rage\u003cbr\u003eI May Appear Drunk\u003cbr\u003eHe Died after a Long Illness\u003cbr\u003eEtymological Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamisha L. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Poetry, Self-Advocacy, and Survival\u003cbr\u003eAccommodation\u003cbr\u003eMénière's Flare\u003cbr\u003eIn\/Ability\u003cbr\u003eMy Hearing Loss Interrogates the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse Rice-Evans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: I Want to Feel Like Home\u003cbr\u003ePills\u003cbr\u003eAll I'm looking for is a ceremony\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Journeys and Becomings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndy Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Broken Lines and Belonging\u003cbr\u003eQuasimodo\u003cbr\u003eDouble Helix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRigoberto González\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Man with the Cane\u003cbr\u003eTo the Man Who Walks with a Cane\u003cbr\u003eThe Trees Keep Weeping Long after the Rain Has Ended\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCath Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: It's a Bit Like This\u003cbr\u003eTender spots\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli Clare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Turning Toward Each Other\u003cbr\u003eConfluence\u003cbr\u003eA Survivor's Wail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eL. Lamar Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: \"I Wouldn't Help It Even If I Could'\u003cbr\u003eI Can't Help It\u003cbr\u003eLegion: Human Immunodeficiency Virus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily K. Michael\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Blood and Candor of Craft\u003cbr\u003eFaith\u003cbr\u003eAmong the Blind\u003cbr\u003eDeficiencies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie E. Illum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: If you are Disabled, and there is an [INSERT], you [???].\u003cbr\u003eWhat the brain hemorrhage says\u003cbr\u003eIf you are Disabled and there is a bomb cyclone, you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiz Whiteacre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: Playing Poetic Telephone to Explore Pain in Poems\u003cbr\u003ePain Pouts\u003cbr\u003eThe Stoic's Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKobus Moolman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay: The Poetics of Falling: an overview\u003cbr\u003eThe Shoulder\u003cbr\u003eThree Views of a Pair of Orthopedic Boots\u003cbr\u003eIn the Bathroom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Curbstone Books 2","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685337264408,"sku":"9780810149731","price":23.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/every-place-on-the-map-is-disabled-poems-and-essays-paperback-softback-9780810149731","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}