The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded
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A collection of poems that explore the themes of neurodivergence and the unique perspective of someone who experiences the world differently.
Nathan Spoon brings the complications of consciousness into view. The question that concerns poets with disabilities—real ones as opposed to the metaphorical—is how do we evolve in this light? In the meantime the poems in Nathan Spoon’s The Importance of Being Feeble Minded have a toughness about them as if perhaps, the epistemology of disability is a street fight. As readers we like the fight. I’m reminded of Ernesto Cardinal’s utterance: “Life is Subversive."
~Stephen Kuusisto
About the Author
Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities. His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, The Southern Review, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Mid/South Sonnets: A Belle Point Press Anthology, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly.