{"id":906,"date":"2007-09-26T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=906"},"modified":"2007-09-26T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T16:40:36","slug":"poetry-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had wanted to post a book review today but didn’t quite get to it. Maybe later. And I know we at 7-Imp never committed to posting something daily<\/em>, but I still want to show you something again anyway. Those people who saw it in our Sunday post<\/a><\/strong>, including Eisha, lurved it. So, here’s an encore (plus, maybe some readers missed it then). <\/p>\n

It’s just too stinkin’ cool. <\/p>\n

Here’s exactly what I wrote on Sunday. Enjoy . . . <\/p>\n

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Wanna see some poetry in the air? I’m a bit partial to ASL myself, but, man, this just rocks. It’s a Quidditch match as conveyed in American Sign Language. Really, you don’t have to know ASL to understand it {rather, you can still appreciate it, even if you’re not fluent in ASL}, as his poem is mostly comprised of what are called classifiers, or ways of showing shapes and movement in ASL (or, if you’re a nerd: classifiers move through the signing space to iconically represent the actions of their referents). And this is hard to explain, but each sign begins with a letter of the alphabet, and he goes from A to Z (it’s a particular kind of ASL poem, and it’s especially clever how his last one is “Z” for Harry’s scar). This poem is short. And awesome<\/em>. And, hey, you don’t have to turn up the volume. At first, the man is signing “An ASL Poem: Harry Potter and Quidditch.” That’s all you need to know. Then, just watch him go. (Thanks to my fellow interpreter friend, Judith, for the link!) . . . <\/p>\n

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