7 Poetry Collections About the Disability Experience - Electric Literature

7 Poetry Collections About the Disability Experience - Electric Literature

During my time as a disabled student, I read few books about identities like mine. Those I did encounter were often written by abled writers or for abled audiences who valued certain stories about disability, those full of tragedy and pity, hope and inspiration, miraculous recovery or certain death. Work about the actual lived experiences of people like me seemed as invisible in the classroom and the canon as my disabilities were from the outsid…