Laura Hershey On the Life and Work of an American Master |
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| Editor:
| Day, Meg
Herd, Niki |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9862470-9-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
| Publisher: | Copper Nickel
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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As part of the Unsung Masters Series, this volume is the first to feature the selected poems of poet and disability activist Laura Hershey (b. 1962). Hershey was instrumental in ensuring the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As a former poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Hershey successfully protested the Jerry Lewis Telethon arguing against the common practice of representing the disabled as people in need of pity or fixing. President Bill...
More DescriptionAs part of the Unsung Masters Series, this volume is the first to feature the selected poems of poet and disability activist Laura Hershey (b. 1962). Hershey was instrumental in ensuring the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As a former poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Hershey successfully protested the Jerry Lewis Telethon arguing against the common practice of representing the disabled as people in need of pity or fixing. President Bill Clinton, in 1999, awarded Hershey the President's Award for Outstanding Service in America for improving the lives of people with disabilities. In this volume, four poets and scholars discuss Hershey's poetry, much of which has remained unpublished, in the context of a landscape ripe with ableism and homophobia. Hershey died unexpectedly in November 2010 and was survived by her partner of 20 years, Robin Stephens, and their daughter Shannon Hershey-Stephens.