Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

Golden Bodies: The Poetics of Disability

These exhibits, focusing on the images created by artists with disabilities, portray a bone truth personhood underlying false social norms.

 

  U.S. Freak Shows
U.S. Freak Shows
     
    Helen Keller
Helen Keller
 
Randolph Bourne
Randolph Bourne's
"War Is the Health
of the State"
     
  Dorothy Lange
Dorothy Lange
 
        Larry Eigner
Larry Eigner
  Joseph Miles
Josephine Miles
   
    Bob Flanagan: Pain Journal
Bob Flanagan: Pain Journal
 
Peter Cook
Peter Cook
       
    Flying Words Project
Flying Words Project
   
        Frank Moore's Web of All Possibilities
Frank Moore's
Web of All Possibilities
  Cheryl Marie Wade
Cheryl Marie Wade
   
     
San Fransisco 504 Demonstration Photos
San Fransisco 504
Demonstration Photos
   
     
    Ricard Gil
Ricardo Gil
       
    Outsider Pages
Outsider Pages
 
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
       
    Josh Blue
Josh Blue
   
        Eddie Swayze
Eddie Swayze
  Miriam Lerner
"The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox"
-- a film by Miriam Lerner
     
      Wolfe
Kathi Wolfe
 
Clark
John Lee Clark's
Deaf American Poetry:
An Anthology
       
    Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson
   
        Nonsite Collective
Nonsite Collective