Posted by aidan on December 19, 2000 at 15:10:39:
My first book of poetry is now published -- as a former contributor to The 12Gauge Review I hope no one minds the plug here:
Fingerspelling poems & drawings
published by Penumbra Press
ISBN 1894131002
available in stores across Canada & the US
distributed by General Distribution
A synopsis: The story in verse of a man becoming romantically involved with a hearing-imparied woman and his attempt to understand both his feelings for her and her disability; how her inability to hear affects her in relation to others, to the world, and to himself. As the main character comes to learn more about this woman, how she receives and absorbs sensory input from the world and those in it, his preconceptions of words, writing, and language are reconfigured, as are his notions of physicality, sens- and sexuality. The poems are accompanied by drawings of the hand signals -- 'one-hand fingerspelli ng'-- for the letters of the alphabet. There are some samples on my website:
http://redrival.com/aidan