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Presents 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, international figure who championed the rights of the deaf-blind worldwide.

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While it is hard to find a contemporary poet able to conjure any human figure, much less one so sealed in stone as Helen Keller, in Thompson’s Myth of Water Helen lives. She is present. Had I not read these simple poems I would not have believed they could have been written."" — Louie Skipper, author of To Speak This Tongue and As Sunrise Becomes The World: A Trilogy

The Myth of Water Poems from the Life of Helen Keller

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817358570, 978-0817358570
      ISBN10: 0817358579

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents 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, international figure who championed the rights of the deaf-blind worldwide.

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      While it is hard to find a contemporary poet able to conjure any human figure, much less one so sealed in stone as Helen Keller, in Thompson’s Myth of Water Helen lives. She is present. Had I not read these simple poems I would not have believed they could have been written."" — Louie Skipper, author of To Speak This Tongue and As Sunrise Becomes The World: A Trilogy

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