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100 1 $aLaunius, Carl Judson.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81083312
245 10 $aIt seemed like a good idea at the time /$cCarl Judson Launius.
260 $aFayetteville :$bUniversity of Arkansas Press,$c1995.
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520 $a"God @#?!, I loved football." Thus begins the saga of a small-town southern boy whose life is altered irreparably by the All-American sport of high-school football. Following the injury that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, Carl Launius learns, with a fierce finality, that nothing will ever be the same again.
520 8 $aIn search of a world outside the confines of a wheelchair, Launius turns to Freud, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, college, writing, booze, sex, and drugs - on his way to becoming a "radical degenerate poet." He haphazardly juggles higher education with attendant care, first love, substance abuse, portable ramps, and "too-full-of-beer" urine bags, bobbing up and down physically and emotionally from the Arkansas Ozarks to Illinois to UC-Davis and back again to Little Rock.
520 8 $aWhether slung like a feedsack over the shoulder of a friend, dumped in the floorboard of a van astride a railroad track, or dead broke at the horse races in Hot Springs, Launius presses on, without whining, resolved to "beat the odds" and live a valid life. This book is proof that he has found that life.
600 10 $aLaunius, Carl Judson.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81083312
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109267
650 0 $aQuadriplegics$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122807
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