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How to communicate : poems / John Lee Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 104 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781324035343
  • 132403534X
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Slateku -- II. Pointing the Needle -- 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 -- III. The Fruit Eat I -- The Diagnosis -- The Rebuttal -- The Transition -- The Interaction -- The Gift -- The Mission -- The Manual -- The Culmination -- The Valediction -- IV. Who You -- 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 -- V. Translations -- 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 -- VI. How to Communicate -- 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.
Summary: "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)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry

A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, " How to Communicate is a masterpiece" (Kaveh Akbar).

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 incisive erasures that find new narratives in nineteenth-century poetry. Calling out the limitations of the literary canon, Clark includes pathbreaking translations from American Sign Language and Protactile, a language built on touch.

How to Communicate embraces new linguistic possibilities that emanate from Clark's unique perspective and his connection to an expanding, inclusive activist community. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, the poet reveals a radically commonplace life. He explores grief and the vagaries of family, celebrates the small delights of knitting and visiting a museum, and, once, encounters a ghost in a gas station. Counteracting the assumptions of the sighted and hearing world with humor and grace, Clark finds beauty in the revelations of communicating through touch: "All things living and dead cry out to me / when I touch them."

A rare work of transformation and necessary discovery, How to Communicate is a brilliant debut that insists on the power of poetry.

"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)"-- Provided by publisher.

Slateku -- II. Pointing the Needle -- 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 -- III. The Fruit Eat I -- The Diagnosis -- The Rebuttal -- The Transition -- The Interaction -- The Gift -- The Mission -- The Manual -- The Culmination -- The Valediction -- IV. Who You -- 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 -- V. Translations -- 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 -- VI. How to Communicate -- 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.

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