You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations

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You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations is written by Shane Neilson and published by icehouse poetry. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1773102486 (ISBN 10) and 9781773102481 (ISBN 13).

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.