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POETRYFESTIVAL 3 - USA - ARIZONA
Desert Poetry Night April 30th 2012
American
Sign Language and Poetry
Dori
Vaughn works in a school as on interpreter/assistant for children who
cannot hear. When I asked her whether she could sign some of my
poems, she hesitated a moment and said yes. Signing is interpreting. American Sign Language (ASL) is not “English”. So she practiced
while I spoke the text and she looked for the best rendering of the
image or the concept. She also practice ‘off the page’. Working
from a written text is a job not many interpreters like to do, and
poetic language of course is an extra challenge. She also discussed
the content of the poem, what I had meant, how it came about. I
however wanted to know how she read the poems, because a poem once
written, is read and interpreted by the reader and might carry a
different weight or connotation. Dori does a great job and added to
the beauty of the event of April 30, 2012:
desert poetry night.
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