“In st/illness I draw myself
closer—every extra limb falls away, fingers
gone to roots, bones turned to stone. When
they gather my hair decades later, they will laugh,
let it go, embarrassed. This is no woman—
just fallen usnea.”
A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability edited by Tennison S. Black
In A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability, editor Tennison S. Black gathers the work of contemporary Disabled and D/deaf visual and literary artists into a brilliant anthology reflective of the vibrancy and vitality of the community. A Body You Talk To is an essential text for a world that commonly ignores health and well-being in favor of profit as these reflections on selfhood, identity, bodies, and the nature of being cohere into a supportive, active community of art and language in conversation.