Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion by Kelly Sargent
About the Author
"Kelly Sargent has loved languages in multiple forms since she was a child. Whether it be through written, spoken, or visual means, engaging with the desire we have to connect with each other and ourselves has been a lifelong endeavor.
Born hard of hearing and adopted in Luxembourg, she grew up with a Deaf Twin Sister in Europe and the United States. She wrote for SIGNews, a national newspaper for the Deaf, and worked in educational settings with deaf students.
She is the author of a poetry chapbook entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion, a finalist in the Cordella Press Poetry Chapbook Contest and a 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award nominee."
Kelly Sargent writes: "My twin sister was born in silence." She writes words that I will carry in my ears for the rest of my life, like some unseen earrings.
The author remembers her sister on cloudy, rainy afternoons during which they finger painted."My twin sister used to close her eyes to shut me up when we argued,” she writes."Memories aren't memories until they are recalled.”
A succession of feelings unleashed with a personal flair.
Expressive authenticity bursts from the wealth of poetic connections. With brilliant talent and sensitivity, the author lives the emotion together with her reader.
There is a personal nobility in Kelly’s ability to be shy and sincere at the same time. This overwhelmed me. When I resonated with the author and perceived her thoughts, I understood I was surrounded by unfamiliar feelings.
"Born deaf, her eyes were her ears," she writes. And: "my twin, my deaf mirror,"
I try to think in silence like one of the five senses. I try to think of silence as a necessity that you fall in love with and that accompanies you everywhere. I sit in front of the mirror to see how we look together. Me and the silence. My deaf mirror beckons me to quiet myself and simply love her.
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