You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations

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Conceived as an archive of wisdom written by a disabled man for his children, You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations gives voice to the experience of living in an ableist society: “Why does it hurt when emotion spills out of a body? How does emotion spell ‘body’? What does it mean to be good? Why is the surplus of beauty everywhere? What is the password?” Weaving together reflections on fatherhood, Walt Whitman’s place in American history, art, and the lingering effects of past trauma, these ringing and raw poems theorize on the concept of shame, its intended purpose, and its effects for and on disabled body-minds.

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Shane Neilson

Shane Neilson is a disabled poet, physician, and critic, who grew up in New Brunswick and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. Neilson is the author of four non-fiction books on medicine and literary criticism. His poetry has won the Walrus Poetry Prize and Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year Award (twice). His five previous poetry collections include Dysphoria, winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and Complete Physical, a finalist for the Trillium Award.
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Shame-Trick – Never-Trick – No-Trick – Obligation-Trick – Fear-Trick – Satisfaction-Trick (Permission Granted) – NEW YORK MINUTE – Fatherhood-Trick … 26 $2.60

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Deep Religious Faith – Hell around the Flowers – Driving across Pennsylvania, I Had a Great Notion – To All My Followers, I Propose the Photosynthesis-Dopamine Hypothesis 11 $1.10

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Faithless in Hospitals – The Weeping Tense – Lion Parachute – Small snippets to unremember undoing – My heart breaks in the NYPL, but it was already broken, truly — I just … 26 $2.60