Song without words discovering my deafness halfway through life
Reveals how the author discovered at the age of thirty-four that he had been partially deaf since childhood and shares how he compensated through his amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels.
| Main Author: | Shea, Gerald, 1942- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Da Capo Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- The invisible curtain
- House of mysteries
- Voices in the air
- A schoolboy's lyricals
- Gaudeamus
- Law school mysteries
- Language in air, language in light
- The sounds of silence
- A voice untouched
- Glass, steel, and Babel
- All-nighters and ulcers
- Friends and foes
- Poetry and burnout
- Paris in lyricals
- "Shea's not getting it!"
- A brain on overtime
- Hearing aids at last
- The wind in the willows
- Almost whole
- Lilacs and minarets
- International counsel
- Prague, Budapest, and the limits of technology
- Life as a lyrical?
- Freedom
- A second peace.