{"product_id":"sweet-bells-jangled-judy-yaeger-jones-9781563681387","title":"Sweet Bells Jangled: Laura Redden Searing, a Deaf Poet Restored Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaura Redden Searing (1839-1923) defied critics of the time by establishing herself as a successful poet, a poet who was deaf. She began writing verse at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1858, and, under the pseudonym Howard Glyndon, soon found herself catapulted into national prominence by her patriotic Civil War poems. Abraham Lincoln himself bought her books, the most critically acclaimed being \u003ci\u003eIdylls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1864. Her poem \"Belle Missouri\" became the song of the Missouri Volunteers, and she was sent by the \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Republican\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper to Washington as a war correspondent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Despite her success, detractors decried her poetry simply because she was deaf, asking how she could know anything of rhyme, rhythm, or musical composition. She quieted them with the simple elegance of her words and the sophistication of her allegorical themes. Readers can enjoy her work again in this volume, which features more than 70 of her finest poems. They also will learn her feelings about the constraints imposed on 19th-century women in her epic narrative of misunderstanding and lost love \"Sweet Bells Jangled: \"\u003cp\u003eOut of sight of the heated land \u003cbr\u003e Over the breezy sea; \u003cbr\u003e Into the reach of the solemn mist \u003cbr\u003e Quietly drifted we.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her restoration will be an event welcomed by poetry aficionados everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judy Yaeger Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1563681382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781563681387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallaudet University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.56w x 0.55d","brand":"Judy Yaeger Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065708785919,"sku":"9781563681387","price":34.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6885899e-56fe-47e1-bbec-bcbe3cef4dbb.jpg?v=1768676735","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sweet-bells-jangled-judy-yaeger-jones-9781563681387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}