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Aphasia and the Arts  
POETRY
Christophe Casamassima

Richard Harteis
Gwyneth Lewis
Vijay Seshadri
Susan Wheeler


SOUND
La Citta' Dei Carillons (n° V)
by Stefano Giannotti



PROSE
Finding the Words by Ann Barnes
Tell Me by Cris Mazza
One December by Elinore Mazza
Aphasia + Parrhesia by Christina McPhee
Metaphor and Metonymy by John Phillips
APHAsIA by Marc Froment-Meurice
A History of the Aphasia Community Group of Boston by Jerome Kaplan


Aphasic symptoms
include word-finding difficulty and full-blown speech distortion, incomplete structural differentiation, blurred figure-ground discrimination, and the absence of formative processing. Taken as a medical condition, these symptoms can be personally devastating, but seen in another light, as the basis for making art, these very aspects can be productive... >MORE