Imatge de l'autor

Kenny Fries

Autor/a de Body, Remember: A Memoir

9+ obres 187 Membres 2 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Kenny Fries teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College.

Inclou el nom: Fries Kenny

Crèdit de la imatge: Author Kenny Fries at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64097085

Obres de Kenny Fries

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The Disability Studies Reader (1905) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions171 exemplars
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (2011) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
About Us: Essays from the New York Times' Disability Series (2019) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
The Name of Love: Classic Gay Love Poems (1995) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Data de naixement
1960
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA

Membres

Ressenyes

travels in Japan. an end and a beginning. disabled gods. flowers and rocks. fortunes.
 
Marcat
kevix | Dec 28, 2020 |
http://thegimpparade.blogspot.com/2007/10/history-of-my-shoes-and-evolution-of.h...

Excerpt from my review:

Disability is all about adaptation. That's not news to me. As performance artist Neil Marcus has said, "Disability is an art—an ingenious way to live." It's improv, sometimes all day long, when out in the public environment built primarily for nondisabled folks. I suspect that's not news to most disabled people either.

But Kenny Fries' newest book, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory, combines musings on adaptation and the life and science of Charles Darwin with personal memoir and travel diary in unique and thoughtful ways. One thing Fries notes, particularly in regard to Darwin and his success as a scientist, is that interdependence (and sometimes dependence) is a natural part of human interaction and achievement.
… (més)
 
Marcat
thegimpparade | Dec 12, 2007 |

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Obres
9
També de
6
Membres
187
Popularitat
#116,277
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
14

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