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“I can imagine what things sound like even though I am deaf,” Robert Panara wrote in his poem, “On His Deafness.”
I can imagine the strumming of a guitar, I can imagine the rustle of a star.
The words appear at the end of a new production of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a century-old collection of poems re-envisioned by computer technology, and awarded new meaning by the raucous and confusing year of 2020. “That was put at the end there,” Dr. Luane Davis Haggerty says of Panara’s poem, “with the hope that people would see that the theme is that we are all stardust, we are all from the same, we are all the same.