How to communicate : poems /
A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic," from an award-winning deaf blind poet. Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic," from an award-winning deaf blind poet. Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the braille slate to sensuous prose poems to pathbreaking translations from ASL and Protactile, a language built on touch. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, Clark reveals a radically commonplace life, the vagaries of family, grief and small delights, visiting a museum, knitting and, once, encountering a ghost in a gas station. A rare work of transformation and necessary discovery, How to Communicate offers a "steadily revelatory gift." |
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| Physical Description: | 104 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781324035343 132403534X |