Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography

<p>Poetry by Jennifer Bartlett. 56 pages.</p><p>From PREFACE by Robert Grenier:</p><blockquote><p>Jennifer Bartlett ‘makes the case’/ testifies to all the actual crap that being born with cerebral palsy entitles her to experience and what life has been like/<em>is like </em>in contemporary America for her—<em>given her lot</em>—and then in the second part of the book (‘despite the facts’) turns round and <em>Celebrates Her </em><em>Existence </em>anyway: “AWAY WITH ALL THAT !” she cries petulantly and determinatively (waves her arm) and devotes the ‘other half of the book’ to her ordinary interested investigations/explorations of what is going on & necessary in her daily life in Brooklyn/New York as if she were a real/actual/‘extraordinary’ sentient being (like everybody in a body) determined to ‘understand’ and attempt to ‘know the whole of it’/what each can know from the ‘absolute perspective’ of each one’s own organism.</p></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>