Jeanie Thompson & Larry Mitchell -- Author Event & Music

Join us for an evening of poetry and music at Page & Palette!On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21st at 6PM, master poet Jeanie Thompson teams up with Grammy Award-winning musician Larry Mitchell for special music project based on her award-winning collection of verse, THE MYTH OF WATER: Go Into Your Life. Thompson's new work recasts eight poems into songs, telling the amazing story of author/activist Helen Keller and her native Alabama. This unique pairing of poetry and song captures the love, loss, and longing of Keller's experience.Enjoy a night of joy and reflection with these talented artists at P&P!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 ser