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[fflo.livejournal.com]

i think i'm following you here.

you remind me of this book i made the library buy, and have at home now (with no competition---i've been able to renew it) --- Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. night before last i read/watched the chapter on what a "line" is. this burgeoning poetics is kind of exciting to me. and there's this new slam-y ASL poetry going on now, a couple of samples of which rather tickled my fancy. though ella mae lentz's "silence oh painful" had me going through in slo-mo trying to get at individual signs (that was one of the ones with no subtitles, and even though it's simple and she's one of those classic here-you-go-you-hearing-newbie signers, i don't understand so much).

anyway... must back to work & not a good time to try to get into it, or even get my head back to that stuff. but prose v. poetry, fer instance, is kind of a laugh in signed "liter"ature.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

this sounds very cool. i'd be curious to know what a "line" is in that kind of visual.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

well, nobody knows. they're just thinking about it so far.

i was a bit disappointed that wm carlos w's "a line is a unit of attention" idea didn't make it into the what-hearing-writers-have-said part. seems like that one might translate.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

it does indeed. wonder what people who use asl think about the categories used to describe the language, it they think they could come up with better ones. if their language is not just a language.