Disability and Illness in Arts-Informed Research:  Moving Toward Postconventional Representations
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

xi

Three Hundred and Forty-Nine Words

1

Solace

3

A Kind of Response

7

The Beginnings of Dys-Girl's Body

13

The Subtle Marks of Vulnerability

17

Beauty Pierced

21

Punctum

23

Resistance of a Scarred Surface

25

Waves of Words

29

The Force of Not Breathing

31

Torsion

33

Sensed-Not-Sensed

35

Rose at Thirteen

37

Girls Falling (the Play of Theory)

39

Vulnerability Incarnate

43

Narrative Anxiety of the Vulnerable (Willa)

45

Darkness Brakes (Motor Vehicle Accident)

47

Firstborn

51

Sensuous Language

53

The Body of Medicine

55

Another Form of Water

57

This Body Is Not My Fault

59

The Earthworm

61

Inside the Writing

63

Story of a Life in Six Pieces

65

Impasse

69

Failure

71

Aspiration (Failure)

75

Raw Flesh and Bone Against the Ginger of My Hair

77

Anagraphia

81

A Silver Hummm

83

Names I Have Never Tasted

87

A Bitter Medium

91

Bare Palace

95

Sore-Footed Stories

99

This Body Is an Academy of Medicine

101

We Are in Constant Touch

103

Night Bus (Biopsy)

105

I Wonder if the Others See Me

109

It Cannot Be Spoken

111

My Heart Is Closer Now

113

A Woman Is Told

115

More About Dys-Body

117

The Petals of Flowers—The Fallen Promises of One Body to Another

119

Going Under

121

Touch

123

The Inconstant Artist

127

The Shambles

129

Hearts

133

My Writing Is an Act of Desire

137

Beauty and Death

139

I Hold Her Heart

143

Drawing

145

Constellations

147

Resistance

149

Rosarium

153

There Are Some Things I Can Write Only Once

155

Note 64: One Story Calls to Another

157

Reading

159

Endnotes

167

References

175

Further Reading

181

Index

187