for any interested parties....the "transliteration of verse originally created in ASL" sort of fascinates me.
Dear Editor:
I am sending you the announcement for my anthology, Deaf American Poetry.
It is below. I hope you will be interested in requesting a review copy and
possibly running a review of it.
The publisher, Gallaudet University Press, specializes in textbooks for Deaf
Studies and memoirs by Deaf people, but is new to poetry. So I am helping
them get the word out to circles they don't usually market in. If you'd
like a review copy, just contact Daniel Wallace at
daniel.wallace@gallaudet.edu or let me know and I'll make sure you get one.
Also, I am available for interviews and can provide excerpts, if you're
interested.
Thank you for your time in reading this message!
John
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dan Wallace
E-mail: Daniel.wallace@gallaudet.edu
Telephone: (202)651-5488
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu
New Collection Mines 200 Years of Poetry by Deaf Americans
WASHINGTON, DC —“The Deaf poet is no oxymoron,” declares editor John Lee
Clark in his introduction to Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology (Gallaudet
University Press, $35.00 trade paperback). The 95 poems by 35 Deaf American
poets in this volume more than confirm his point. Theirs is a remarkable
record of development parallel to the verse of better known poets during
that period. From James Nack’s early metered narrative poem “The Minstrel
Boy” to the free association of Kristi Merriweather’s contemporary “It Was
His Movin’ Hands" and "Be Tellin’ Me,” these Deaf poets display mastery of
all forms prevalent during their lifetimes. Beyond that, E. Lynn
Jacobowitz’s “In Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan” exemplifies a form unique
to Deaf American poets, the transliteration of verse originally created in
American Sign Language.
This definitive anthology showcases for the first time the best work of Deaf
poets throughout the nation’s history — John R. Burnet, Laura C. Redden,
George M. Teegarden, Agatha Tiegel Hanson, Loy E. Golladay, Robert F.
Panara, Mervin D. Garretson, Clayton Valli, Willy Conley, Raymond Luczak,
Christopher Jon Heuer, Pamela Wright-Meinhardt, and many others. Each of
their poems reflects the sensibilities of their times, and the progression
of their work marks the changes that deaf Americans have witnessed through
the years. In “The Mute’s Lament,” John Carlin mourns the wonderful things
that he cannot hear, and looks forward to heaven where “replete with purest
joys / My ears shall be unsealed, and I shall hear.” In sharp contrast, Mary
Toles Peet, who benefitted from being taught by Deaf teachers, wrote
“Thoughts on Music” with an entirely different attitude. She concludes her
account of the purported beauty of music with the realization that “the
music of my inward ear / Brings joy far more intense.”
Clark, a well-respected poet and contributor to the volume from St. Paul,
MN, tracks these subtle shifts in awareness through telling, brief
biographies of each poet. By doing so, he reveals in Deaf American Poetry
how “the work of Deaf poets serves as a prism through which Deaf people can
know themselves better and through which the rest of the world can see life
in a new light.”
Deaf American Poetry
An Anthology
John Lee Clark, Editor
ISBN 1-56368-413-6, 978-1-56368-413-5, 6 x 9 paperback, 280 pages,
footnotes, references, index, $35.00
To order books, call 1-888-630-9347, FAX 1-800-621-8476
Or visit gupress.gallaudet.edu
Contents
Editor's Note
Introduction
John R. Burnet (1808–1874)
Emma
James Nack (1809–1879)
From The Minstrel Boy
The Music of Beauty
John Carlin (1813–1891)
The Mute’s Lament
Mary Toles Peet (1836–1901)
Thoughts on Music
To a Bride
The Silent Child of Art
Laura C. Redden (1840–1923)
My Story
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841–1925)
Scenes in the History of the Deaf and Dumb
To a Deaf-Mute Lady
Alice Cornelia Jennings (b. 1851)
A Prayer in Signs
George M. Teegarden (1852–1936)
The “Nad”
Gallaudet College
J. Schuyler Long (1869–1933)
I Wish That I Could Tell
Agatha Tiegel Hanson (1873–1959)
Semi-Mute
James William Sowell (1875–1949)
The Oralist
Dear Eyes of Grey
Howard L. Terry (1877–1964)
From The Old Homestead
On My Deafness
Alice Jane McVan (1906–1970)
And No Applause
Response
Earl Sollenberger (c. 1912–1947)
The Legend of Simon Simplefuss
Birds Will Sing
Reply to “Beware Lest People Think—”
Thoughts in a Pennsylvania Cornfield
To a Neglected Poet
Felix Kowalewski (1913–1989)
I Will Take My Dreams . . .
Heart of Silence
Quasimodo May Not Dare
Loy E. Golladay (1914–1999)
On Seeing a Poem Recited in Sign Language
Silent Homage
Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics I
Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics II
Surely the Phoenix
Incident at the B.M.T.
Rex Lowman (1918–2001)
Bitterweed
Beethoven
Wingéd Words
Robert F. Panara (1920– )
On His Deafness
Lip Service
Idylls of the Green
Ars Poetica
Mervin D. Garretson (1923– )
for Bill Stokoe
to Doin Hicks
to an expert
deaf again
Dorothy Miles (1931–1993)
The Hang-Glider
Linwood Smith (1943–1982)
Percy
Mike
The Dream Song of the Deaf Man
Curtis Robbins (1943– )
The Rally That Stood the World Still
Solo Dining While Growing Up
The Promised World
Russian Roulette
Deaf Poet or What?
Clayton Valli (1951–2003)
A Dandelion
Pawns
E. Lynn Jacobowitz (1953– )
In Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan
Debbie Rennie (1957– )
As Sarah
Willy Conley (1958– )
A Deaf Baptism
The Miller of Moments
Salt in the Basement
Peter Cook (1962– )
Don Quoxitie Didnt Really Attack the Windmill
Ringoes
Flying Words Project: Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner (est. 1984)
Wise Old Corn #1
Ode to Words
Katrina R. Miller and Damara Goff Paris (1965-)
How the Audist Stole ASL
Raymond Luczak (1965– )
The Audiologist
Spelling Bee 1978
Learning to Speak, Part I
Hummingbirds
The Crucifixion
Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a
Deaf Man
Abiola Haroun (1970– )
Deaf Mind
The Deaf Negro
Ode to a Silent World
Christopher Jon Heuer (1970– )
Bone Bird
The Hands of My Father
Visible Scars
Diving Bell
Koko Want
We Can Save the Deaf!
Kristi Merriweather (1971– )
It Was His Movin’ Hands
Be Tellin’ Me
Pamela Wright-Meinhardt (1971– )
Silent Howl
When They Tell Me . . .
John Lee Clark (1978– )
Story Actual Happen
Long Goodbyes
The Only Way Signing Can Kill Us
My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves
Kristen Ringman (1979– )
the ear gods
Calling Van Gogh
Alison L. Aubrecht (1979– )
ape-child
Conditional Wings
What My Teacher Taught Me
The Ghost in Yellowed Photographs
Hearing-Headed
Notes on the Poems
Bibliography
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