The Aphasia Cafe
By Dawn McGuire
Description: The Aphasia Cafe is a unique collection of poems that write the lives of individuals who, because of stroke or dementia, have lost all or part of their ability to use language. Written by an award-winning poet-neurologist, the aphasia poems explore what happens to a person — a self — when language, the tool we use to construct who we are, suddenly fractures along one of its many fault lines.
Other sections of The Aphasia Cafe also explore language and self-identity, but in relation to family life, political violence, bigotry, shame and redemption.
These imaginatively straightforward poems, accessible to all of us 'aphasics', as we struggle to understand and to communicate who we are..
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