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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
Molly McCully Brown, 2017
CALL NO...: 03-BOO
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Persona poems voicing the residents of a real Virginia institution where thousands of disabled people were sterilized under eugenics law. Written by a poet with cerebral palsy, it turns an archive of harm into something unbearably human. A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017.
Disabled VoicePoetryDisability HistoryDisability Arts
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Available at many libraries and from Persea Books.