Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias Jon Thompson increasingly sure-footed in negotiating external

increasingly sure-footed in negotiating external as well as internal worlds

’ – Phil Bowen

Sumita Chakraborty

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“Watching the new surge of Deaf poets take on the world of BSL

Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias Jon Thompson increasingly sure-footed in negotiating externalAcoustic shadowssound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil Warcomplicate the lives of many figures appearing in these poems, including that of the young John Matthias at his grandfathers house on Iuka Drive in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. This book, Matthiass first volume of entirely new poems since Complayntes for Doctor Neuro (Shearsman, 2016), includes a group of short