Leah is our most fearless chronicler of crip life which means theyve got one of the biggest hearts alive in a body that also wields the fiercest pen Their work has been a lodestar for so many of us who have had our hearts broken by ableisms insidious and rampant effects and this book is yet another shining pinnacle to follow arriving as Leah often does at exactly the right moment Not only does Leah know the specific and abundant universe of this heartbreak in their bones but they also know how to transmute that brokenness into image and story action and catharsis solidarity and legacy This book is a major achievement a document that shimmers with crip survival grief loss pain love and life We always say about Leah that their books are urgent of this time and the necessities of the present but for me they are at once an ancient soothsayer a reporter from the front lines and the one well be reading in 100 years What can I say Theyre the best of us Johanna Hedva author of How to Tell When We Will Die On Pain Disability and Doom

This is Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha who always saves our lives always steals us back to ourselves always insists on the gritty everyday of survival But in this particular collection of elegies laments spells and witness is Leah at their most June Jordan their most generous offering the grieving heart our grieving hearts need Alexis Pauline Gumbs author of Survival Is a Promise The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinhas The Way Disabled People Love Each Other hinges on the question Who mourns when disabled people die This as PiepznaSamarasinha knows cannot be answered without touching this inquirys twin Who celebrates disabled life Every bloody intimate elegiac page of The Way Disabled People Love Each Other is an offering to the gods of disabled vivacity and a bullet launched another centimetre closer to that which seeks to kill us Cyree Jarelle Johnson author of SLINGSHOT and WATCHNIGHT

With adept hardwon magic Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha transforms the endlessness of disabled grief into an endlessness rooted in remembering celestial earthly everywhere loving fiercely wordlessly imperfectly and surviving while howling and breaking The Way Disabled People Love Each Other is what poetry is meant to be a photobook an altar and a composite of community crip wisdom you return to over and over when nothing feels real and you need something that is This is a collection where the pages sizzle ancestors cackle and dance with you smoke lingers in the room and you know youll never have to fight alone Jane Shi author of echolalia echolalia