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A Brilliant Loss
About this book
Eloise Klein Healy’s A Brilliant Loss is a poetic journey into the loss of language and the reclaiming of it. Healy had Wernicke’s aphasia in 2013 when she was the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles, and the virus hit her the night of her reading with Caroline Kennedy at the Central Library. Also called fluent aphasia, Wernicke’s aphasia affects language and the use of words. Healy’s collection shows that her brain has access to its deepest unconscious, and that place is poetry. Her deepest language is poetry. It’s as if a dancer was denied the ability to walk or run, and could only dance. Healy writes of losing her words and finding big love.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Releasing The Tears Again
- The First Effort
- My Brain Sizzled, April 2013
- What’s the Whole Thing?
- A P H A S I A
- Aphasia’s Not What I Can’t Say
- Blueberry
- Down
- First I Wrote About Aphasia
- Gone
- How Aphasia Zipped Me Up
- How To Plan
- Maybe If A Name Mattered
- Turning Like A Figure Skater
- My Life Before
- Patient
- Level 3, Northridge Rehab
- Not Again
- No Music On The Ward
- Once, More Than Once
- Pleasantry
- Slurring
- The Day Torn
- Flurry Of Speaking
- Have A Piece . . .
- Who Knew?
- Zipped Me Up
- My Lazy Eye
- Daring, Darling?
- Sometimes Or Again?
- You Move
- Oh, Just Today
- Did I Remember What Kind Of Date It Was?
- If You Knew
- Iris
- Make A Mask At The Ball
- Palm Springs
- Tension
- Monday
- Less Than Possible
- What Did I Say?
- If You Knew
- In The Dryer
- At Some Point
- Just In Case
- Sustain Me
- Biographical Note
- Back Cover