Another Phase

Eloise Klein Healy

Description

In April 2013, just five months after being named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Eloise had a brain injury resulting in Wernicke’s aphasia—a breakdown in the symbol system of language. Poetry was the guide and motivation for recovery. This collection is comprised of a series of five-line poems that began as a focusing exercise yet transformed into a remarkable channel for her creativity. These poems are filled with the same features that have pervaded her work, meaning they are serious, at times playful, sometimes beautiful and sometimes “goofy.” But all have that twist, that meaningful point, that is unique to Eloise’s consciousness.

Sujets

• Themes
• Subjects
• Receptive aphasia
• Poetry
• Erotica
• Love

Informations

• Publié par: Red Hen Press
• Date de parution: 29 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781597098052
• Langue: English

Extrait

ANOTHER PHASE
ANOTHER PHASE

poems
Eloise Klein Healy
Another Phase
Copyright 2018 by Eloise Klein Healy
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Book layout by Amber Lucido
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Healy, Eloise Klein, author.
Title: Another phase : poems / Eloise Klein Healy.
Description: First edition. | Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018031077 | ISBN 9781597090421 (tradepaper)
Classification: LCC PS3558.E234 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031077
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Meta George Rosenberg Foundation, the Allergan Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, and the Amazon Literary Partnership partially support Red Hen Press.

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For Betty
Contents
Once Upon a Time
To
Ohhh
Artemis
Wonder
Another Phase
Everywhere
Dancing
Up
Problem
Swing
Discuss
Awake
Music?
Fur
Attitude
Kite
Imagination
Tips
Yz?
Flashlight
Whoo
Lists
Wow
Places
All The Special
Analyzing
Bothersome Woman
Sky
Porcupine
Dump
Prize
Moon
Knots
Meadowlark
Read
Long
Animals
Born
Going for Words
Alphabet
Food
Weather
Asshole
Here s What I Said
Joan
Miss Dancing in the Dark
My Brain, My Loss
Maps
Dad
Buzz
Don t
Ever
Just
Visitor
Now
Decided
Shows
Again
Always
Their World
Money
Skunks
Mist
At Least or At Last
Travel
Mind
Five O Clock
Body
Imagine this:

You cannot understand what you hear or read. You cannot speak or write and be understood. Your use of language has been lost. You speak and write words in a nonsensical manner. You hear what people say, but it makes no sense.
In 2013, this happened to Eloise Klein Healy, who had recently been named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles.
The day before her illness she was