Willy Conley
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"Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime....It is a tremendous resource for students of visual-gestural communication, sigh language interpretation, American Sign Language (ASL), and other foreign sign languages, nonverbal communication, theatre, and performance studies, as well as community educators in deaf awareness...
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I don't write "with the ear" as most poets do, but with the eye. As Deaf people are apt to do, we become attuned to our world through tactile means, listening through the bone for vibrations, sensing shifts in air currents, recognizing wafting odors, observing fluctuations and reflections of light and movements in the water.
In Listening through the Bone, Willy Conley bears witness to life's moments and renders them into poems...
In Listening through the Bone, Willy Conley bears witness to life's moments and renders them into poems...
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Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a Registered Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and hearing worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf Mexican, and they...
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"Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts. Their topics range from those completely unrelated to deafness to those with strong deaf-related themes such as: a dreamy, headstrong girl surviving a male-dominated world in Depression-era Ireland; a famous Spanish artist losing his...
8) Wrong game
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Wrong Game, a film produced by ASL Films, takes place in a mansion filled with a mysterious history. Several people, all Deaf, are contacted to come to the mansion to participate in a game where the winner receives 1 million dollars. When the participants gather, they learn the hard truth, the game is a life-or-death matter and losing the game is not an option. To add further drama, each person holds highly specialized skills and collectively, they...