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from the aaaamazing Homofactus Press:

“YPSILANTI, Michigan, May 21, 2008 ‐ A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion―one keystroke at a time. Cripple Poetics is many things: e‐mails, IMs and letters between lovers; poetic rumination/invigoration; and disability arts manifesto. As lovers/poets/performance artists Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus court each other and woo us as well. We are seduced by their great love of each other, crip culture, and a fierce, revolutionary dynamism that makes us want to whirl with them, through pleasure and pain, into the maelstrom of the possibilities for joy and expression the body―and this life―offer.

The dance of courtship is reflected in language that alternately snakes and darts, declares and obfuscates, reminisces and forges―finding freedom within its limitations. “
Cripple Poetics preserves and unfolds the artifacts of an original and timely love story that might otherwise have remained shrouded in a small, forgotten corner of cyberspace,” says publisher Jay Sennett .”

I’m so pumped about this book— Neil Marcus is one of my favorite poets and I’m excited to learn more about Petra Kuppers. what’s better than a book on some good crip lovin’? It releases in August : )

If you haven’t heard of Homofactus Press yet, check it out. They focus on the trans experience and though still growing, offer their books online for free if people aren’t able to afford them.