Jeanie Thompson & Larry Mitchell -- Author Event & Music

Join us on Wednesday, October 21st at 6PM to listen to Jeanie Thompson talk about her book,The Myth of Water.Listen to Jeanie Thompson read poems from the new CDThe Myth of Water: Go Into Your Lifein collaboration with  Larry Mitchell’s original music.Enjoy a glass of wine as you listen to Jeanie and Larry’s award-winning words and music based on her original University of Alabama book,The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller.We hope to see you there!The Myth of Water: Go Into Your LifeThe Myth of Water is a cycle of thirty-four poems by award-winning Alabama poet and writer Jeanie Thompson in the voice of world-renowned Alabamian Helen Keller. In their sweep, the poems trace Keller’s metamorphosis from a native of a bucolic Alabama town to her emergence as a beloved, international figure who championed the rights of the deaf-blind worldwide.Thompson’s artfully concatenated vignettes form a mosaic that maps the insightful mind behind the elegant and enigmatic persona Keller projected. Thompson takes readers on the journey of Keller’s life, from some of the thirty-seven countries she visited, including the British Isles, Europe, and Japan to the wellsprings of her emotional awakening and insight. The poems are paired with fascinating biographical anecdotes from Keller’s life and samplings from her writing, which infuse the work with richly-rewarding biographical detail.The poems in The Myth of Water reveal the discerning subtlety, resiliency, and complexity of the person Thompson perceives Helen Keller to have been. Through a combination of natural intuition, manual signs, Braille alphabets, and lip reading, Keller came to grasp the revolving tapestry of the seasons and the infinite colors of human relationships.Not a biography or a fictional retelling, The Myth of Water attempts to unlock what moved Keller to her life of service and self-examination. This is a deeply personal story of coming through—not overcoming—a double disability to a fully realize