Listening through the bone : collected poems / Willy Conley.

Includes bibliographies and index.

I don't write "with the ear" as most poets do, but with the eye. As Deaf people are apt to do, we become attuned to our world through tactile means, listening through the bone for vibrations, sensing shifts in air currents, recognizing wafting odors, observing fluctuations and reflections of light and movements in the water. In Listening through the Bone, Willy Conley bears witness to life's moments and renders them into poems that are at once irreverent and tender. His poetry examines life cycles, the natural world, and his experiences as a Deaf individual. It is presented in five parts: Inaudibles Existentials Quizzicals Irrevocables Environmentals ​​ Conley's thoughts on the banal and the bizarre include translations of poetry from American Sign Language to English. His identity as a Deaf poet lends a strong visual aspect to his work. This collection is accompanied by the author's photographs, including "watergraphs" that reveal inverted images reflected in pools of water.

Cover; Title; Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Inaudibles; A Deaf Baptism; The Honeybee Epiphany; Salt in the Basement; Claustrophobic Audism of a Tenderfoot; The Turtle Bowl; The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician; Deaf People Don't Do Voice-overs (Hearing Envy); Room Disservice; The Air Conditioner; The Deaf Simpleton; Debunking "Deaf Mute"; Will; ASL, Eyesdropping; The Miller of Moments; Deaf Director to a Deaf Actor; The Ivoryton Inn; The Universal Drum; Adam; Sunrise in Santa Fe with Clay

My Sojourn in Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris by Debbie Rennie, translation by Willy ConleyII. Existentials; Verisimilitude versus Vicissitude; The water falls.; One Frame at a Time; I of the Beholder; Fibers of Time; Windows; Someone's Daughter; The Pop Tart and the Computer Scientist; Wake of the Future; The Relativity of Banality; N-u-i in South Baltimore; Sun, the Savior; The Silent Witness of Mauthausen; III. Quizzicals; Trans-Portation; Volare; The Reverse Pavlov Effect; Uncarved Epitaphs; My Subconscious Dreams a Poem; The Seven-Hundred-Dollar Louis Vuitton Fountain Pen; Arson

The Missing Tipping PointOrigin of a Pratfall; Keep Politics Out of Sushi; Support Group; The Absentminded Tooth Fairy; How to Make Fire; The Proof of the Pudding; A Life Hack; IV. Irrevocables; The Perfect Woman; The Morning Paper; The Cryptology of Love; Alone and Breathing; The Way He Sees Her; The Eyes of Ingrid Isabella; November Rust; Missing Children by Debbie Rennie, translation by Willy Conley; Yew in the Family Plot; Uncle George; V. Environmentals; Five Haiku; A Maryland Eastern Shore Life; The Breezy Logic of a Nine-Year-Old; Family Happy Hour on Christmas Day; Nature Photography

A Long Way from a Leper ColonyOlfactophobia; Juniper, Pine, Mesquite; The Canyon; Vaudeville in the Insect World; Subterranea; The Jay; Impressions; Land of Lost Pets; Listening through the Bone

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