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This collection is an important text on disability and the eugenics movement, exploring themes of power, justice, and the body. Named for a state-run residential hospital opened in 1910, it offers accounts of the horrors which took place there: forced sterilization, solitary confinement, and other abuses. The poems are told from the perspective of various patients and staff. The characters are fictional but based on Brown’s research. Brown, who is disabled, grew up close to the institution, wrestling with its history: “By some accident of luck or grace / some window less than half a century wide / it is my backyard but not what happened / to my body.”
About the Collection
About the Collection
Classic Texts with Similar Themes
Classic Texts with Similar Themes
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847
Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, 1955
Further Reading
Further Reading
Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors, The New York Times
Ways to Read this Book at STCC
Ways to Read this Book at STCC
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Additional Options
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