{"product_id":"the-way-disabled-people-love-each-other","title":"The Way Disabled People Love Each Other: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of\u003c\/i\u003e Tonguebreaker, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice\"\u003eCare Work\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e The Future Is Disabled\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLambda Award-winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha returns with their long-awaited fifth collection of poems, written over five years of pandemic lockdown, during which time they lost cherished friends and comrades and met their estranged parents' end of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way Disabled People Love Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e is a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. A book that will speak to any kind of griever, but particularly disabled QTBIPOC ones sitting with the endless mass grief and possibility of this time, and those with violent family from whom we still yearn to claw out beauty from the trauma rubble. It's a road map for survivors looking for something that's neither a happy Hollywood ending nor a transformative justice fairy tale - not the healing we wished for, but the healing we find anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is a rigorous, rueful documentation of a specific time of pandemic fascist grief and possibility. Brimming with odes, elegies, and mourning songs, these poems sparkle like switchblades and offer new possibilities for love, grief, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"h3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leah is our most fearless chronicler of crip life, which means they've got one of the biggest hearts alive in a body that also wields the fiercest pen. Their work has been a lodestar for so many of us who have had our hearts broken by ableism's insidious and rampant effects, and this book is yet another shining pinnacle to follow - arriving, as Leah often does, at exactly the right moment. Not only does Leah know the specific and abundant universe of this heartbreak in their bones, but they also know how to transmute that brokenness into image and story, action and catharsis, solidarity and legacy. This book is a major achievement, a document that shimmers with crip survival, grief, loss, pain, love, and life. We always say about Leah that their books are urgent, of this time and the necessities of the present - but for me they are at once an ancient soothsayer, a reporter from the front lines, and the one we'll be reading in 100 years. What can I say? They're the best of us.\" Johanna Hedva, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who always saves our lives, always steals us back to ourselves, always insists on the gritty everyday of survival. But in this particular collection of elegies, laments, spells and witness is Leah at their most June Jordan, their most generous, offering the grieving heart our grieving hearts need.\" Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of \u003ci\u003eSurvival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's \u003ci\u003eThe Way Disabled People Love Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e hinges on the question 'Who mourns when disabled people die?' This, as Piepzna-Samarasinha knows, cannot be answered without touching this inquiry's twin: 'Who celebrates disabled life?' Every bloody, intimate, elegiac page of \u003ci\u003eThe Way Disabled People Love Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e is an offering to the gods of disabled vivacity and a bullet launched another centimetre closer to that which seeks to kill us.\" Cyree Jarelle Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eSLINGSHOT\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWATCHNIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With adept, hard-won magic, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha transforms the endlessness of disabled grief into an endlessness rooted in remembering (celestial, earthly, everywhere), loving (fiercely, wordlessly, imperfectly), and surviving (while howling and breaking). \u003ci\u003eThe Way Disabled People Love Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e is what poetry is meant to be, a photobook, an altar, and a composite of community crip wisdom you return to over and over when nothing feels real and you need something that is. This is a collection where the pages sizzle, ancestors cackle and dance with you, smoke lingers in the room, and you know you'll never have to fight alone.\" Jane Shi, author of \u003ci\u003eecholalia echolalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44505556680797,"sku":"9781834050300","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/TheWayDisabledPeopleLoveEachOther.jpg?v=1781113248","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/products\/the-way-disabled-people-love-each-other","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}