The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller

by Jeanie Thompson

The Myth of Water is a cycle of thirty-four poems by award-winning Alabama poet and writer Jeanie Thompson in the voice of world-renowned Alabamian Helen Keller. In their sweep, the poems trace Keller's metamorphosis from a native of a bucolic Alabama town to her emergence as a beloved, international figure who championed the rights of the deaf-blind worldwide.

Thompson's artfully concatenated vignettes form a mosaic that maps the insightful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358579
• ISBN13: 9780817358570
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.6"