The perseverance / Raymond Antrobus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antrobus, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound.

Communication.

Grief.

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

81 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.

Summary:

"In this extraordinary debut collection, award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus interrogates anger, grief, illness, vulnerability, deafness, and race through a commanding engagement with language, tongues, listening, and sound. In the wake of his father's death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus' The Perseverance travels to Gaudi's cathedral in Barcelona. Ruminating on the idea of silence and sound, he wonders whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. As he receives information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea: "Even though," he says, "I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer." So begins a stunning examination of a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. With a global scope and a deep intimacy, Antrobus draws on family and historical figures to create a chorus of voices: on the page, in our mouths, in our hands and ears. The Perseverance is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find--both individually and as a society--if we fail to understand each other"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Aunt Beryl Meets Castro

My Mother Remembers

Jamaican British

Ode to My Hair

The Perseverance

I Move Through London like a Hotep

Sound Machine

Dear Hearing World

`Deaf School' / Ted Hughes

After Reading `Deaf School' by the Mississippi River

For Jesula Gelin, Vanessa Previl and Monique Vincent

Conversation with the Art Teacher (a Translation Attempt)

The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame

The Mechanism of Speech

Doctor Marigold Re-evaluated

The Shame of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

To Sweeten Bitter

I Want the Confidence of

After Being Called a Fucking Foreigner in London Fields

Closure

Maybe I Could Love a Man

Samantha

Thinking of Dad's Dick

Miami Airport

His Heart

Dementia

Happy Birthday Moon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781951142421

195114242X

OCLC:

1156990518