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ANESTHESIA Poems by Kenny Fries This first full-length collection of poems by award-winning poet Kenny Fries explores how oppression and loss affect language, memory and desire. Fries not only writes about his experience of living with a congenital physical disability but also focuses on how his disability has affected his life as a Jew and as a gay man. Fries takes the reader into the deep recesses, the secret dark places, deftly transforming his personal experience into poems that movingly speak to all of us. IncludesThe Healing Notebooks,winner of the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS writing. "In a deftly orchestrated collection, Kenny Fries brings to light a complex awareness of his history as a Jew and as a gay man physically disabled at birth. Tough-minded and sparely written, the poems take their source from a clear and calm intelligence that projects an aura of affirmation in the face of suffering and loss. Fries is not content with the merely personal; his work spins into wider worlds." --Colette Inez 83 pp. $14.95 softbound. ISBN: 0-9627064-6-9 Click here to order	DESERT WALKING Poems by Kenny Fries. From Exodus to Eliot's The Waste Land the desert has been the site for spiritual quests that balance a deep mourning for the human condition against a longing for joy and transcendence     -- Alfred Corn Kenny Fries's poems reach beyond yearning to the gravity of making -- where both loss and rejuvenation touch in the song.     -- Stephen Kuusisto, author of Planet of the Blind 96 pp. $15.95 Paper. ISBN 0-9627064-7-7 Order now More praise for Desert Walking . . . These spare, precise poems chart the complexities of human intimacy with both delicacy and brashness. Their mix of candor and tenderness is memorable and moving. -- Chase Twichell, author of The Snow Watcher In elegantly contemplative poems, Kenny Fries explores the natural world of the desert, carrying us on a journey that is both an esthetic and spiritual quest. Richly interwoven with colors and contours of the land, bomb testing sites, holy places, native lore. . . . -- Colette Inez Only a lover's, and therefore the Lover's, beauty could force a poet of such honest insight to tell us everything. Which is exactly what Kenny Fries does in Desert Walking,, never holding back from us, and more crucially, himself even the most invisibly painful moments. . . . -- Agha Shahid Ali	MAKING NEWS How to get news coverage of disability rights issues. Edited by Tari Susan Hartman & Mary Johnson. Worried about anti-disability spin in the media? Fight back -- make your own news! Get on the front pages, lead the newscasts, influence public debate. This how-to book gives examples, tips.83 pp. $10.95 softbound. ISBN: 0-9627064-6-9 Order now<	THE RAGGED EDGE The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag. Edited by Barrett Shaw. Order now "The Disability Rag is the voice of a mighty revolution, and this stunning collection from its first 15 years will become an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to understand the new thinking of the disability rights movement. Here are the urgent, spirited and provocative stories that have changed the way people -- disabled and nondisabled -- have come to view what it means to have a disability." --Joseph. P. Shapiro, U.S. News & World Report, author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. 238 pp. $18.95 softbound. ISBN: 0-9627064-5-0 View Table of Contents. Order now<>
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