Hands folded by clayton valli biography death

Clayton Valli was a prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature. He earned an A. In , he received his M. His Ph. He was also the first individual to identify the features of ASL poetry as a literary genre in its own right.

As a poet, Valli created original works in ASL that he performed to appreciative audiences around the country. His poems make sophisticated use of handshape, movement, use of space, repetition, and facial expression.

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Influenced by canonical American poets like Robert Frost, as well as Deaf poets such as Bernard Bragg, Valli often chose nature imagery to convey subtle insights into Deaf experience. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.

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Chapter One An Analysis of “Hands” by Clayton Valli palm down, and then flipped, DEATH is signed as a long fall, with both hands beginning high from.

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