Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness (The Tenth Anniversary Edition)

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In 2002, Raymond Luczak handed us his call to arms for deaf artists everywhere. Ten years later, he revisits the book that challenged assumptions about being an artist. Has anything changed? Yes and no. Luczak’s meditations on what makes art art and deafness deaf asks artists everywhere to rethink their work and live differently. This tenth anniversary edition incorporates new observations made over the past decade. Written in the form of quick bursts of opinion arrived at over his many years as a poet, playwright, and filmmaker, Luczak seeks to shake deaf artists out of the cages built by the hearing world … There are plenty of opinions to argue with in this volume. Yet Luczak calls us to ask important questions of ourselves. - Emily Drabinski, Out