How to communicate : poems /
Clark, John Lee, 1978-
How to communicate : poems / John Lee Clark. - First edition. - 104 pages ; 22 cm
Slateku -- Line of Descent -- On My Return from a Business Trip -- Excessive Force -- Trees -- An Honest Man -- Knitting -- Rebuilding -- Clamor -- Cubist Statue -- Three Squared Cinquains -- A Funeral -- My Friend He -- The Diagnosis -- The Rebuttal -- The Transition -- The Interaction -- The Gift -- The Mission -- The Manual -- The Culmination -- The Valediction -- To Ask -- It Is Necessary -- Mrs. Schultz -- Etienne de Fay -- The Politician -- Old Deaf Joke -- Goldilocks in Denial -- The Bully -- Nicholas Saunderson -- At the Holiday Gas Station -- Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner: Need -- John Maucere: The Friend -- Patrick Graybill: Memories -- Noah Buchholz: The Moonlight -- John Lee Clark: The Rebuttal -- Oscar Chacon: The Lumberjack Story -- Rhonda Voight-Campbell: Solace -- A DeafBlind Poet -- Pearl -- I Would That I Were -- Oralism -- Pass -- Order -- I Promise You -- Morrison Heady -- Sorrow and Joy -- Spread -- Treasure -- Approach -- Self Portrait -- How to Communicate. II. Pointing the Needle -- III. The Fruit Eat I -- IV. Who You -- V. Translations -- VI. How to Communicate --
"A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic" (Ilya Kaminsky), from an award-winning DeafBlind 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" (Carl Phillips)"--
9781324035343 132403534X
40031559287
2022027409
GBC2H9953 bnb
020771993 Uk
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry.
How to communicate : poems / John Lee Clark. - First edition. - 104 pages ; 22 cm
Slateku -- Line of Descent -- On My Return from a Business Trip -- Excessive Force -- Trees -- An Honest Man -- Knitting -- Rebuilding -- Clamor -- Cubist Statue -- Three Squared Cinquains -- A Funeral -- My Friend He -- The Diagnosis -- The Rebuttal -- The Transition -- The Interaction -- The Gift -- The Mission -- The Manual -- The Culmination -- The Valediction -- To Ask -- It Is Necessary -- Mrs. Schultz -- Etienne de Fay -- The Politician -- Old Deaf Joke -- Goldilocks in Denial -- The Bully -- Nicholas Saunderson -- At the Holiday Gas Station -- Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner: Need -- John Maucere: The Friend -- Patrick Graybill: Memories -- Noah Buchholz: The Moonlight -- John Lee Clark: The Rebuttal -- Oscar Chacon: The Lumberjack Story -- Rhonda Voight-Campbell: Solace -- A DeafBlind Poet -- Pearl -- I Would That I Were -- Oralism -- Pass -- Order -- I Promise You -- Morrison Heady -- Sorrow and Joy -- Spread -- Treasure -- Approach -- Self Portrait -- How to Communicate. II. Pointing the Needle -- III. The Fruit Eat I -- IV. Who You -- V. Translations -- VI. How to Communicate --
"A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic" (Ilya Kaminsky), from an award-winning DeafBlind 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" (Carl Phillips)"--
9781324035343 132403534X
40031559287
2022027409
GBC2H9953 bnb
020771993 Uk
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry.