Deaf Poetry Now!! An Anthology
Now and then some communities need to pause and ask themselves just where they are now as a people. One of the best ways to find such answers is through poetry being composed right now. What are they saying in their poems?
Given the intense media interest in the signing community and the Deaf experience these days, it feels timely to seek out such possible answers from d/Deaf poets sharing their own perspectives. In this anthology, they spotlight the joys and frustrations of the d/Deaf experience with a wide variety of poems and, yes, voices.
Mute: The Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Silence is always a powerful statement, but even more so in this third poetry collection by Raymond Luczak, now expanded with an introduction and thirteen new poems that include elegies for his Deaf gay friends. First published in 2010, Mute explored what it was like to navigate the warring languages of confusion and clarity.
As a Deaf gay man in the hearing world, Luczak lends an unforgettable voice to his reality of ache and loss beyond the inadequate translation of sound.
