The Myth of Water : Poems from the Life of Helen Keller /
"A collection of personal poems in the voice of Helen Keller. The poems included in this collection struggle with the humanity behind the name Helen Keller and serve to dramatically portray the person Thompson perceives Helen Keller to be. The poetry takes on many approaches, and as such these...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Writing about Helen Keller; Important Texts; Chronology of Helen Keller's Life; Prologue; Practicing Speech; I. You Are Helen: 1880-1917; Memory of Ivy Green; First Dream of the Tennessee; At Wrentham; This Day; Silence; Teacher's Letter from Puerto Rico; Soliloquy: Palm Sunday 1917; Imaginary Letter to John Hitz; Encounter in Montgomery; The Little Boy Next Door; II. Bridge: Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937; First Entry, after Midnight; The Not-You; Another Country; Dream of the Manse Children Talking; The Exquisite Instrument that Makes an Ear.
- Fragment of an Afternoon at Musee Rodin, Paris, with Gutzon BorglumEnrico Caruso Remembers Helen Keller; Returnings; Imaginary Farewell from Russell Cone to Helen Keller; River, Bridge, and Sky; I Promised; III. Your Light: 1943-1948; From a Japanese Child along the Parade Route; Reproach; Late Elegy for FDR; First Light at the Shinto Shrine for A.S.M.; IV. Coming through Fire: Circa 1955; Hunger; Teacher; One Word; Our Hands; V. Tell the World: 1950-Present Day; Jo Davidson's Letter from Florence, Italy; Helen's Meditation in the Marble Quarry, Carrara, Italy.
- With the Martha Graham Dance CompanyIn Which Helen Puts to Rest the Mirror; What Helen Saw / What Helen Said; The Myth of W-a-t-e-r; Coda; In Terra Cotta; Acknowledgments; Biographical Note.