Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography

Poetry by Jennifer Bartlett. 56 pages. From PREFACE by Robert 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/ is like in contemporary America for her– given her lot –and then, in the second part of the book (‘despite the facts’) turns round and Celebrates Her Existence “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.