| Description |
1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; BIRD; THE LANGUAGE IN MY TONGUE; Enigma; Grand mal; The language of the serpent; Transformation; First breath; Words on mirrors; Miniature death; In the bath; 24 hours; Devils; Falling woman; Falling stars; No names; Tongue without words; Black hole; Senseless; Hyphen; My body is a country; Tongue; Teeth; They thought you were dead; Dying stars; Underworld; Eurydice; Dream moon; New tongue; The well; Oracle; The language in my tongue; Eyes; The skin on my tongue; Traces; EEG; Strobe; Concrete words; Sixteen years; The flood; Ransom |
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Relearning the language caught inside my tongueBelly language; ECT; Thesaurus; SEIZED; Variations on Sappho's Fragment 31; TONGUE TIED; Hilda's journey; The improbable city; Year's end; Unripe; Gone; Hell and back; Tongue tied; The pot; No witness; Microlandscapes; Synapse; Starfish; I saw eternity; MEDITATION ON FALLING; THE ADVENTURES OF AN EPILEPTIC; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Birds don't fly with leads, says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne captures the voice and longings of a child at the edge of self-realisation. This collection draws on the experience of epilepsy mixed with imagination, mythic consciousness and an intense realisation of life |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This edition in English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Epilepsy -- Poetry
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POETRY -- General.
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Epilepsy
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00360991 |
| ISBN |
9781742194011 |
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174219401X |
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