1974 Poetry and Literature in Sign Performance:  Dr. Robert F. Panara
Channel: RIT Libraries
Date: 2019-03-19

Summary by Joan Naturale. This video is from the Robert Panara collection. Dr. Robert Panara starts out by presenting Japanese Haiku poems. He fingerspells the poem and then acts it out using sign transliteration, body language, and facial expressions. The next poem he signs is 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost, continues with a poem by Robert Burns, 'A Red, Red Rose', and the 'Star-Spangled Banner' song by Francis Scott Key. Next, he provides a signed rendition of Marc Antony’s famous speech 'Friends, Romans, and Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears' by Shakespeare after Caesar’s death. Finally, he signs his famous poem, 'On His Deafness' (modeled after John Milton’s On His Blindness). Visual description: Dr. Panara has slicked back dark brown hair and is wearing a short-sleeved white shirt. He is in front of a whiteboard. For more information, please go to the Deaf Studies Archive finding aid link URL: https://archivesspace.rit.edu/repositories/2/resources/819

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