Dear Friends:<\/p>\n
Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology is here! The press release from<\/p>\n
Gallaudet University Press is below, followed by the table of
\ncontents.<\/p>\n
While you can order it from them or through any major bookstore, you
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order copies from me, and I will not only autograph your copies but
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enclose with each order a f.r.e.e., autographed copy of my chapbook
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poems, Suddenly Slow.<\/p>\n
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to John Lee Clark, $35 per copy plus $2 for shipping (the anthology
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hefty!). Mail checks to:<\/p>\n
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Email: johnlee@clarktouch.com Please forward this message and spread the word about this landmark<\/p>\n collection of precious gems!<\/p>\n FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n CONTACT: Dan Wallace<\/p>\n E-mail: Daniel.wallace@gallaudet.edu<\/p>\n Telephone: (202)651-5488<\/p>\n New Collection Mines 200 Years of Poetry by Deaf Americans<\/p>\n WASHINGTON, DC \u2014\u201cThe Deaf poet is no oxymoron,\u201d declares editor Clark in his introduction to Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology University Press, $35.00 trade paperback). The 95 poems by 35 Deaf poets in this volume more than confirm his point. Theirs is a record of development parallel to the verse of better known poets that period. From James Nack\u2019s early metered narrative poem \u201cThe Boy\u201d to the free association of Kristi Merriweather\u2019s His Movin\u2019 Hands” and “Be Tellin\u2019 Me,\u201d these Deaf poets display all forms prevalent during their lifetimes. Beyond that, E. Lynn<\/p>\n Jacobowitz\u2019s \u201cIn Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan\u201d exemplifies a to Deaf American poets, the transliteration of verse originally American Sign Language.<\/p>\n This definitive anthology showcases for the first time the best work poets throughout the nation\u2019s history \u2014 John R. Burnet, Laura C. George M. Teegarden, Agatha Tiegel Hanson, Loy E. Golladay, Robert F.<\/p>\n Panara, Mervin D. Garretson, Clayton Valli, Willy Conley, Raymond Christopher Jon Heuer, Pamela Wright-Meinhardt, and many others. Each their poems reflects the sensibilities of their times, and the of their work marks the changes that deaf Americans have witnessed the years. In \u201cThe Mute\u2019s Lament,\u201d John Carlin mourns the that he cannot hear, and looks forward to heaven where \u201creplete joys \/ My ears shall be unsealed, and I shall hear.\u201d In sharp Toles Peet, who benefitted from being taught by Deaf teachers, wrote<\/p>\n \u201cThoughts on Music\u201d with an entirely different attitude. She account of the purported beauty of music with the realization that music of my inward ear \/ Brings joy far more intense.\u201d<\/p>\n Clark, a well-respected poet and contributor to the volume from St. MN, tracks these subtle shifts in awareness through telling, brief<\/p>\n biographies of each poet. By doing so, he reveals in Deaf American how \u201cthe work of Deaf poets serves as a prism through which Deaf know themselves better and through which the rest of the world can in a new light.\u201d<\/p>\n Deaf American Poetry<\/p>\n An Anthology<\/p>\n John Lee Clark, Editor<\/p>\n ISBN 1-56368-413-6, 978-1-56368-413-5, 6 x 9 paperback, 280 pages,<\/p>\n footnotes, references, index, $35.00<\/p>\n To order books, call 1-888-630-9347, FAX 1-800-621-8476<\/p>\n Or visit gupress.gallaudet.edu<\/p>\n Contents<\/p>\n Editor’s Note<\/p>\n Introduction<\/p>\n John R. Burnet (1808\u20131874)<\/p>\n Emma<\/p>\n James Nack (1809\u20131879)<\/p>\n From The Minstrel Boy<\/p>\n The Music of Beauty<\/p>\n John Carlin (1813\u20131891)<\/p>\n The Mute\u2019s Lament<\/p>\n Mary Toles Peet (1836\u20131901)<\/p>\n Thoughts on Music<\/p>\n To a Bride<\/p>\n The Silent Child of Art<\/p>\n Laura C. Redden (1840\u20131923)<\/p>\n My Story<\/p>\n Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet<\/p>\n Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841\u20131925)<\/p>\n Scenes in the History of the Deaf and Dumb<\/p>\n To a Deaf-Mute Lady<\/p>\n Alice Cornelia Jennings (b. 1851)<\/p>\n A Prayer in Signs<\/p>\n George M. Teegarden (1852\u20131936)<\/p>\n The \u201cNad\u201d<\/p>\n Gallaudet College<\/p>\n J. Schuyler Long (1869\u20131933)<\/p>\n I Wish That I Could Tell<\/p>\n Agatha Tiegel Hanson (1873\u20131959)<\/p>\n Semi-Mute<\/p>\n James William Sowell (1875\u20131949)<\/p>\n The Oralist<\/p>\n Dear Eyes of Grey<\/p>\n Howard L. Terry (1877\u20131964)<\/p>\n From The Old Homestead<\/p>\n On My Deafness<\/p>\n Alice Jane McVan (1906\u20131970)<\/p>\n And No Applause<\/p>\n Response<\/p>\n Earl Sollenberger (c. 1912\u20131947)<\/p>\n The Legend of Simon Simplefuss<\/p>\n Birds Will Sing<\/p>\n Reply to \u201cBeware Lest People Think\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n Thoughts in a Pennsylvania Cornfield<\/p>\n To a Neglected Poet<\/p>\n Felix Kowalewski (1913\u20131989)<\/p>\n I Will Take My Dreams . . .<\/p>\n Heart of Silence<\/p>\n Quasimodo May Not Dare<\/p>\n Loy E. Golladay (1914\u20131999)<\/p>\n On Seeing a Poem Recited in Sign Language<\/p>\n Silent Homage<\/p>\n Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics I<\/p>\n Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics II<\/p>\n Surely the Phoenix<\/p>\n Incident at the B.M.T.<\/p>\n Rex Lowman (1918\u20132001)<\/p>\n Bitterweed<\/p>\n Beethoven<\/p>\n Wing\u00e9d Words<\/p>\n Robert F. Panara (1920\u2013 )<\/p>\n On His Deafness<\/p>\n Lip Service<\/p>\n Idylls of the Green<\/p>\n Ars Poetica<\/p>\n Mervin D. Garretson (1923\u2013 )<\/p>\n for Bill Stokoe<\/p>\n to Doin Hicks<\/p>\n to an expert<\/p>\n deaf again<\/p>\n Dorothy Miles (1931\u20131993)<\/p>\n The Hang-Glider<\/p>\n Linwood Smith (1943\u20131982)<\/p>\n Percy<\/p>\n Mike<\/p>\n The Dream Song of the Deaf Man<\/p>\n Curtis Robbins (1943\u2013 )<\/p>\n The Rally That Stood the World Still<\/p>\n Solo Dining While Growing Up<\/p>\n The Promised World<\/p>\n Russian Roulette<\/p>\n Deaf Poet or What?<\/p>\n Clayton Valli (1951\u20132003)<\/p>\n A Dandelion<\/p>\n Pawns<\/p>\n E. Lynn Jacobowitz (1953\u2013 )<\/p>\n In Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan<\/p>\n Debbie Rennie (1957\u2013 )<\/p>\n As Sarah<\/p>\n Willy Conley (1958\u2013 )<\/p>\n A Deaf Baptism<\/p>\n The Miller of Moments<\/p>\n Salt in the Basement<\/p>\n Peter Cook (1962\u2013 )<\/p>\n Don Quoxitie Didnt Really Attack the Windmill<\/p>\n Ringoes<\/p>\n Flying Words Project: Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner (est. 1984)<\/p>\n Wise Old Corn #1<\/p>\n Ode to Words<\/p>\n Katrina R. Miller and Damara Goff Paris (1965-)<\/p>\n How the Audist Stole ASL<\/p>\n Raymond Luczak (1965\u2013 )<\/p>\n The Audiologist<\/p>\n Spelling Bee 1978<\/p>\n Learning to Speak, Part I<\/p>\n Hummingbirds<\/p>\n The Crucifixion<\/p>\n Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a<\/p>\n Deaf Man<\/p>\n Abiola Haroun (1970\u2013 )<\/p>\n Deaf Mind<\/p>\n The Deaf Negro<\/p>\n Ode to a Silent World<\/p>\n Christopher Jon Heuer (1970\u2013 )<\/p>\n Bone Bird<\/p>\n The Hands of My Father<\/p>\n Visible Scars<\/p>\n Diving Bell<\/p>\n Koko Want<\/p>\n We Can Save the Deaf!<\/p>\n Kristi Merriweather (1971\u2013 )<\/p>\n It Was His Movin\u2019 Hands<\/p>\n Be Tellin\u2019 Me<\/p>\n Pamela Wright-Meinhardt (1971\u2013 )<\/p>\n Silent Howl<\/p>\n When They Tell Me . . .<\/p>\n John Lee Clark (1978\u2013 )<\/p>\n Story Actual Happen<\/p>\n Long Goodbyes<\/p>\n The Only Way Signing Can Kill Us<\/p>\n My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves<\/p>\n Kristen Ringman (1979\u2013 )<\/p>\n the ear gods<\/p>\n Calling Van Gogh<\/p>\n Alison L. Aubrecht (1979\u2013 )<\/p>\n ape-child<\/p>\n Conditional Wings<\/p>\n What My Teacher Taught Me<\/p>\n The Ghost in Yellowed Photographs<\/p>\n Hearing-Headed<\/p>\n Notes on the Poems<\/p>\n Bibliography<\/p>\n Permissions<\/mailto><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friends: Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology is here! The press release from Gallaudet University Press is below, followed by the table of contents. While you can order it from them or through any major bookstore, you can order copies…<\/p>\n
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