Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author De la Paz, Oliver, 1972- author.

Title The boy in the labyrinth / Oliver de la Paz.

Publication Info. Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2019]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (155 pages).
Children language
text file
Series Akron series in poetry
Akron series in poetry.
Summary "In a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the language barriers between parents, their children, and the fractured medium of science and school. Structured as a Greek play, the book opens with a parents' earnest quest for answers, understanding, and doubt. Each section of the Three Act is highlighted by "Autism Spectrum Questionnaires" which are in dialogue with and in opposition to what the parent perceives to be their relationship with their child. Interspersed throughout each section are sequences of standardized test questions akin to those one would find in grade school, except these questions unravel into deeper mysteries. The depth of the book is told in a series of episodic prose poems that parallel the parable of Theseus and the Minotaur. In these short clips of montage the unnamed "boy" explores his world and the world of perception, all the while hearing the rumblings of the Minotaur somewhere in the heart of an immense Labyrinth. Through the medium of this allusion, de la Paz meditates on failures, foundering, and the possibility of finding one's way"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Autistic children -- Poetry.
Autistic children.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject Perceptual disorders in children -- Poetry.
Perceptual disorders in children.
Communicative disorders -- Children -- Poetry.
Communicative disorders.
Parent and child -- Poetry.
Parent and child.
Prose poems.
Prose poems.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Poetry.
Other Form: Print version: De la Paz, Oliver, 1972- Boy in the labyrinth. Akron : University of Akron Press, 2019 9781629221724 (DLC) 2019023505
ISBN 9781629221748 (electronic book)
1629221740 (electronic book)
9781629221731 (electronic book)
1629221732 (electronic book)
9781629221724 (paperback)