Table of Contents:
  • At the school for the deaf / Robert Pawlowski
  • Mutterings over the crib of a deaf child / James Wright
  • Like the Hully-Gully but not so slow / Anne Finger
  • My family is unhappy / Cheri Fein
  • The sentry of Portoferraio / Daniel Mark Epstein
  • Black lightning / Arthur Sze
  • The lace maker / Barbara Howes
  • Lying alone in the dismal winter mornings / Christy Brown
  • The freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo
  • Finch the spastic speaks / Gordon Weaver
  • Charwoman ; Veteran's hospital / Ben Belitt
  • Visit to the Institute for the Blind / Felix Pollak
  • Stutterer / Alan Dugan
  • The game / Harold Bond
  • The stroke / Christopher Fahy
  • The eye (part II.) / Richard Wilbur
  • The ones that are thrown out / Miller Williams
  • Average waves in unprotected waters / Anne Tyler
  • The street / Natalie Petesch
  • Beating and beatitude / James Corpora
  • Silences / David Keller
  • The glen / Josephine Jacobsen
  • The grasshopper's burden / William Goyen
  • The sacrifice / Fergus Reid Buckley
  • The handicapped / Philip Dacey
  • How Strump stood in the water / David Wagoner
  • A late elegy for a baseball player / Felix Stefanile
  • Seated nude / Richard Ronan
  • Wrestling with angels / Walter McDonald
  • After being paralyzed from the neck down for twenty years, Mr. Wallace gets a chin-operated motorized wheelchair / Ronald Wallace
  • Recovery song / Barry Wallenstein
  • Stumpfoot on 42nd Street / Louis Simpson
  • 9:00 A.M. at Broadway and Walnut on your birthday / Ripley Schemm
  • Bleeder / Hollis Summers
  • Waiting for Happy / John Gilgun
  • Saint Flannery / David Ray
  • Pizarro teaches the mentally retarded to swim / Lee Bassett
  • To one deaf Mary Lucina.