Sign wars -- The Art of signing -- Ancient gestures, modern signs -- French ancients and moderns -- The Deaf in the harem -- The Deafness of the ancients -- Philosophy and the sign -- Sign at the salon -- Signs of the revolution -- Signs and Citizens : Regeneration and the Deaf -- The Politics of Deafness -- The Normal and the pathological -- David's studio and the Deaf -- The Mimicry of mimesis : Morality, sign and pathology -- Mimicry, copying and orginality -- Revolt and organization -- Cultural politics -- A Culture of gestures -- Mimicry and mimesis -- Visualizing Anthropology : Touch, the hand and gesture -- Evolutionism, art, and the sign -- The Silent monument -- Milan and after -- A Deaf Variety of Modernism? : Republican morality -- The Deaf artists and the museum -- Gesture and hysteria -- Deaf Republicans -- Deaf artists and the Third Republic -- The Deaf and the Dreyfus Affair -- Eugenics and the Deaf -- Deaf moderns -- Anthropology and philosophy -- Art history -- Deaf culture.

'The Silent Poet' is about the stories of others and some of my own in a collection for everyone to call their home. It is a space to feel safe through the roller coaster of emotions this book will take you on. Join me in my very own little chaos of poems that you, your heart and soul can relate too. This book is meant to empower everyone in finding their inner peace from all the demons that hinder their growth. this book is for you

A message to you, from me. to those of you hurting, without a voice to keep. a collection of pretty things, and spoken word poetry

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Poetry. Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. 2014 Kore Press First Book Winner, selected by Joy Harjo. SILENT ANATOMIES is a poetic-visual hybrid that traverses the body's terrain, examining the phenomena of cultural silences. Whether it is shame obscuring the female body, the social stigma shrouding certain illnesses, or the cryptic stories of her ancestors, Monica Ong interrogates the agency of the daughter, who must decide whether or not to speak out. What happens to stories that go underreported, un-translated, or are completely erased?

The calculated instabilities in Ellis's poems are self-reflexively composed from his subtle shiftings between 'I', 'you' and 'it', in a very original re-inventing of a form of expressionism in which the self warps what it encounters but simultaneously is warped by the pressure exerted by the implied presence of alien subjectivities, and the explicit presence of a fragmentary world of defamiliarised objects. Because they share similar philosophical influences, the poet Ellis most resembles is Paul Celan, and his own practice can be helpfully explicated by reference to what Celan says about himself in his prose piece 'Conversation in the Mountains':Hardly has an image entered than it gets caught in the web, and already present is a thread which begins to spin, which spins itself around the image, a veil-thread; spins itself around the image and begets a child in conjunction with it, half-image, half-veil.Ellis has invented a thoroughly english-language version of Celan-like preoccupations, with his own quite separate set of personal symbols, and he should be cherished for this invention of an uncanny and exotic, yet oddly familiar and homely, poetic.