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Literature & Fiction

Post, Jory

Essays & Correspondence

Unruly Voices

In the summer of 2020, the final summer of his life, Jory Post gave himself an assignment: He would write one essay a day, inspired by whatever caught his eye and imagination.The seventy essays that emerged - personal and idiosyncratic, contemplative and fierce - range in subject from the writing life, extinct birds, and the origins of words to the "three 'C's" (cancer, chemo, and Covid) and his love for his wife and friends.As he faced his last days, Jory Post measured the world around him and threw the full reach of his emotions and literary skills into these pages.

Man vs. Poetry. Poetry may be ahead on points.Munificent musings on multiple matters, mainly manifesting in a literary litany of alliterative madness. It's poetry, if you squint ...Initially inspired by the need to chase a monstrous sea creature around, "Artisanal Gibberish" is the manifestation of alliteration, assonance, homophonic wordplay which rattles around in Mr. Legare's head all ... the ... time ..."Artisanal Gibberish" is perfect for leaving on the toilet tank in the bathroom, or gifting to your least beloved relative.

Artisanal Gibberish

Legare, Matthew

Poetry

Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen

Sternbach, Claudia

After suffering a devastating loss, Claudia writes letters to family and friends, the famous and the infamous, as a means to explore the events in her own life and find meaning in human connections.In this third memoir by Claudia Sternbach, she once again knits together fragments - this time using letters written to the likes of Goldie Hawn, Leonard Cohen, Vermeer, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and more - to shape a story of a woman attempting to make sense of the life she is living and those who have been a part of it - knowingly or not.Her letters show us that we are all connected even by the thinnest of threads, that exploring those connections helps give shape and understanding to our past, and shines a light on what the future may hold.In a time where emails are thought of as too time-consuming, and text messages seem to be our main way of communicating, Sternbach reminds us that the art of letter writing should not be tossed aside so quickly.

Parenting & Relationships

"Write to me. Keep me alive," wrote Jory Post to Paola Bruni as he was dying of inoperable cancer. 
Hence, the quiet conversation ensued - one poet to another - an intimate, and at times playful, sharing of hopes, fears, and grief.

how do you spell the sound of crickets

Bruni, Paola

Joy, heartache, and corruption: Teaching while Deaf in a California public school 
This book is tender, funny, surprising, and disruptive. You'll be a fly on the wall in a Deaf classroom in a public school, watching a Deaf teacher struggle with staff, administration, and aides who sabotage the teachers at every turn. You’ll also see the children struggle with a principal who removes their textbooks, a vindictive, power-hungry speech therapist, and a system that leaves them defenseless against it. 
You'll also meet a language-hungry boy who will capture your heart and run away with it and the political, fiercely intelligent elite members of the Deaf community who rally to change legislation after his life takes a shocking turn. Learn from these true stories of individual students and their quirky, fallible teacher, what the deepest feelings and dilemmas of Deaf and hard of hearing people are, and why 90% of our students around the country are being unnecessarily set up for failure.

The Butterfly Cage

Biographies & Memoirs

Zemach, Rachel

Community & Culture

A tender and perspective-shifting book that offers a rare level of understanding about the subtle and and no-so-subtle layers of internalized oppression and deep feelings and dilemmas of Deaf people, written by former Deaf teacher Rachel Zemach.\nThis mesmerizing, funny, and disruptive narrative invites you to be a fly on the wall in a Deaf classroom at a hearing school, experiencing the immense frustration, unbridled joy, and indelible humor that arise for Deaf adults and children in a hearing environment.\nRachel struggles with staff, administration, and aides who sabotage her efforts at every turn. The students contend with a principal who removes their textbooks, intercom announcements that are totally inaccessible and a system that renders them all defenseless against these dysfunctional and often absurd forces.\nYou'll meet seven-year-old Laszlo, the brilliant, language-hungry boy who will capture your heart, and the political, fiercely intelligent elite members of the Deaf community who rally to change legislation after his life takes a shocking turn at age sixteen when he makes a heart-wrenching decision. 
In a series of short, distinctive chapters, Zemach shares her personal Deafhood journey, poignant scenes from the classroom, shocking individualized education meetings and their impact, and the larger political and historical picture surrounding Deaf education.\nYou will never be the same after you read The Butterfly Cage, intended to spark a national dialogue about the current state of Deaf education, and the lifelong impact of the language deprivation, oralism and audism that prevails in the majority of schools for the majority of our Deaf children, many of whom are unnecessarily set up for failure.\nWho should read this book?\nParents and anyone in contact with Deaf people whether professionally or personally Teachers, of any kind ASL students ASL interpreters People who enjoy well-written, entertaining and powerful memoir Readers interested in diversity, cultures or language.\nThe Butterfly Cage comes with ASL Videos (captioned) and supplementary materials for college-level class discussions/assignments. Book group discussion questions also provided.

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Artisanal Gibberish

Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen

Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen

Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen

how do you spell the sound of crickets

The Butterfly Cage

The Butterfly Cage