＂Welcome to the worlds of the disabled. The physically disabled. The mentally disabled. The emotionally disabled. What does that word ＂disabled＂ mean anyway? Is there a right way to be
crippled? Editors Sheila Black and Michael Northen (co-editors of thehighly praised anthology Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability) join newcomer Annabelle Hayse to present short
stories by Jillian Weise, Dagoberto Gilb, Anne Finger, Stephen Kuusisto, Thom Jones, Lisa Gill, Floyd Skloot and others. These authors--all who experience the ＂disability＂ they write
about--crack open the cage of our culture’s stereotypes. We look inside, and, through these people we thought broken, we uncover new ways of seeing and knowing＂--
