Events

Time: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown, Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Free
Poets Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers read from their new book. Cripple
Poetics: A Love Story (Homofactus Press, 2008) follows the movement of
Bay Area poet and activist Neil Marcus and his partner Petra's
courtship through traditional poems, emails, essayistic meditations
and Internet Relay Chat. Through variations in form, these pieces ask
us to think of our conceptions of mobility, immobility, physical pain,
as well as means of travel, touch, and communication. As a part of the
Disability Culture movement, the collection shows both non-disabled
and disabled people how rich the poets' lives are, not in spite of
their disabilities, but with and through them.