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This is a chapbook of autobiographical poems by Ann Conway, writer and sociologist, that explores with honesty and tenderness a personal history of congenital deafness, Irish Catholicism, and two brothers with schizophrenia. The personal gradually releases into the universal, and the reader is invited to see the world anew, with resilience and loving attention.

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"Prepare yourself to be drawn into Ann Conway's cinematic portrayal of literal and inner spheres--where ""everything far becomes near,"" where vulnerability meets unflinching witness to histories and to hope. Lines like, ""Oh Daddy, /Let us live again in all the lies you told about a better world,"" offer a rich mixture of longing, divinity, ghosts and paradox. Conway brings local places and particular people to the page and layers her testimony with the ineffable muffle of deafness, creating a personal soundtrack to the human condition, muted and vibrant with ""heartsounds."" -- Jennifer Wallace, author of Almost Entirely"

Prepare yourself to be drawn into Ann Conway's cinematic portrayal of literal and inner spheres--where everything far becomes near, where vulnerability meets unflinching witness to histories and to hope. Lines like, Oh Daddy, /Let us live again in all the lies you told about a better world, offer a rich mixture of longing, divinity, ghosts and paradox. Conway brings local places and particular people to the page and layers her testimony with the ineffable muffle of deafness, creating a personal soundtrack to the human condition, muted and vibrant with heartsounds. -- Jennifer Wallace, author of Almost Entirely

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