The myth of water : poems from the life of Helen Keller /
"The Myth of Water is a cycle of thirty-four poems by award-winning Alabama poet and writer Jeanie Thompson in the voice of world-renowned Alabamian Helen Keller. In their sweep, the poems trace Keller's metamorphosis from a native of a bucolic Alabama town to her emergence as a beloved, i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2016]
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| ISBN: | 9780817389925 081738992X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.