How to Communicate

✍ Scribed by John Lee Clark

• Book ID: 112026304
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781324035350

✦ Synopsis

**Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry

A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, "How to Communicate is a masterpiece" (Kaveh Akbar).**

Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuous prose poems to incisive erasures that find new narratives in nineteenth-century poetry. Calling out the limitations of the literary canon, Clark includes pathbreaking translations from American Sign Language and Protactile, a language built on touch.

How to Communicate embraces new linguistic possibilities that emanate from Clark's unique perspective and his connection to an expanding, inclusive activist community. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, the poet reveals a radically commonplace life. He explores grief and the...