Sounds I Cannot Hear Clearly Anymore Add Up to the Sum of Silence GetBooksUpdated where each word ripples outward

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At the heart of this collection is a father who lost his hearing when his cannon backfired during the Second World War

The book argues that Pentecost is not merely a subject for poetry but a theory of it

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Sounds I Cannot Hear Clearly Anymore Add Up to the Sum of Silence GetBooksUpdated where each word ripples outwardby Martin Willitts Jr. In Sounds I Cannot Hear Clearly Anymore Add Up to the Sum of Silence, Martin Willitts Jr. traces the many forms silence takes across a lifetime. The silence of a deaf father who refused to learn sign language. The silence between a parent and an estranged son. The silence that follows war. And the gradual quieting of the poet's own hearing. At the heart of this collection is a father who lost his hearing when his cannon