Box 4: Robert Panara Deaf Characters in Literature Collection in archives (RITDSA.0032).
A is for Alice by Golladay, Loy E,
Poems by a deaf writer on the deaf experience "Poems of love and laughter that reflect life behind the "plateglass curtain" of Deafness."Front cover. Includes a brief biography of the author.
Bitterweed by Rex Lowman
Book One and Book Two: Poems by Paul S. Pyers
Each volume includes a brief biography of the author, a Deaf poet Book One. Man is marching: Introduction for poems of Paul Pyers, Jr. / Leonard P. Siger Philosophical poems on religion and science I Nonsense poems Honorary poems. Book Two. The Talking Rock and other poems: Introduction by Paul S. Pyers, Jr. Philosophical poems on religion and science II Poems on deafness Festival-Seasonal poems
Gestures-Poetry in Sign Language by Dorothy Miles
Dot was known for her hybrid poetry--they made sense in both English and sign language.
Handful of Quietness by Earl Sollenberger
Having a Bad Hear Day: poetry and verse for others who are hearing repaired like Sal Parlato Jr. by Sal Parlato
My Heart Can Hear: and other poems: 1920 1940 by C. Allan Dunham
Contains a newspaper clipping (estimated to be from Buffalo, N.Y., in the early 1970s) that is a brief article about Dunham's life and poetry.
Sign Mind by Jim Cohn
A compilation of journals, essays, lectures, dreams & scholarly imaginations on themes related to contemporary American Sign Language (ASL) poetry". On a cold February day in 1984, a landmark event in American Sign Language poetry took place at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, New York. "Two Worlds, One Spirit" was a workshop designed to address the topic of poetry and deafness. The participants were Allen Ginsberg, the internationally acclaimed "Beat" poet, and Robert Panara, the distinguished deaf poet and professor. During the proceedings, Ginsberg stated that "the ambition of a good pet is to write something that is visually bright and clear." Unlike wit and rhyme, he said, a picture can be translated into another language. To illustrate, he asked for a volunteer from the audience to interpret "hydrogen jukebox," a phrase from his poem "Howl," into ASL. At first, no one responded. Then, as Jim Cohn tells it in Sign Mind, the ASL poet Patrick Graybill volunteered "As if the whole of deaf culture depended on it."
Sung in silence: selected poems by Howard L. Terry
The Tactile Mind: Freedom Spring 2001
"Literary magazine of the signing community." Word of miracle [poem] / Viv Simmons In memoriam of Stephen Michael Ryan [AZ power poem] / E. Lynn Jacobowitz Peace [sculpture] / Robin Taylor Human abuse (1995) [poem] / Pamela Witcher The ocean [poem] / William L. Bird Untitled [photograph] / Taras J. Dykstra The door [story] / Pamela WrightMeinhardt Poets' duel, 1927: the lunge [letter] / J. Frederick Meagher Poets' duel, 1927: the parry [letter] / J.S. Bowen Untamed woman [sculpture] / Robin Taylor Silent homage: a tribute to interpreters [poem] / Loy E. Golladay As is for the first time [interview] / Robert F. Panara Untitled [photograph] / Greg Sjostrom Belle Missouri [battle cry]; Which is best? [poem] / Laura Redden Searing Smithereens past [diary echoes]; Reflections (1987) [poem]; Diana (10 November 1997) [poem] / Lauren Cooper Something constructive [memoir]; Sign is an anagram of sing [pantoum]; Love lodge [poem]; On seeing Chekhov [poem] / Morgan Grayce Willow Far away, long time ago [photograph] / Taras J. Dykstra California as I saw it: part I of IV [chronicle] / Edmund Booth
Words from a Deaf Child and Other Verses by Mervin D. Garretson
You and I: fifty years of poems, translations and artwork by Felix Kowalewski
Includes a brief biography of Kowalewski. Contains translations into English of several of Baudelaire's poems: "Selected free translations from the French of Charles Baudelaire" p. 113-134
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