Speak, Hands [Hardcover]

Lillian Moats (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

While learning to meditate, a startling development focuses the author's attention on the relationship between mind and hands: she finds that her hands will ''speak'' to her in gesture. Through their silent language she gradually deciphers the intricate mystery of her past. Speak, Hands is a dramatic account of the healing power of the unconscious.

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''In her creative and courageous book Speak, Hands, Lillian Moats offers us challenge and inspiration.'' -- Sue Bender, Author of N.Y. Times best seller Plain and Simple, Stretching Lessons and Everyday Sacred

''Speak, Hands is beautiful and mysterious and very moving.'' -- Donna Seaman, author of Writers on the Air and In Our Nature

''Speak, Hands, like Legacy of Shadows, is an uplifting story of the triumph of the human spirit.'' -- Kathleen E. McCrone, Executive Dean, College of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Windsor

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''In her creative and courageous book Speak, Hands, Lillian Moats offers us challenge and inspiration.'' --Sue Bender, author of N.Y. Times best-seller Plain and Simple, Stretching Lessons and Everyday Sacred

In her creative and courageous book Speak, Hands, Lillian Moats offers us challenge and inspiration. --Sue Bender, author of N.Y. Times best-seller Plain and Simple, Stretching Lessons and Everyday Sacred

Speak, Hands is beautiful and mysterious and very moving. --Donna Seaman, author of Writers on the Air and In Our Nature

About the Author

Lillian Moats is a writer, artist and filmmaker. Her animated art films have won over 40 awards in festivals around the world. Moats earned critical acclaim for her previous two books, The Gate of Dreams, a collection of original fairy tales for all ages which she wrote and illustrated (Cranbrook Press: 1993, 1996) and Legacy of Shadows, which explores the powerful impact of unresolved emotion passed down within a family (Three Arts Press: 1999).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Three Arts Press; 1St Edition edition (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966957628
• ISBN-13: 978-0966957624
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,966,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A simply fascinating read from beginning to end, January 5, 2007

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This review is from: Speak, Hands (Hardcover)

Lillian Moats is a writer, artist and filmmaker whose animated art films have won more than 40 distinguished awards in festivals around the world. "Speak, Hands: A Meditation On Memory And The Unconscious" is a kind of literary memoir in which she questions the very nature of memory while conveying her extraordinary personal and creative struggle to express her artistic conceptions. Moats employs a complex narrative structure using four inner voices which challenge the distinctions between mind and body, subject and object, consciousness and the unconscious. A simply fascinating read from beginning to end, "Speak, Hands" is intensely personal, intellectually stimulating, emotionally rewarding, and a uniquely crafted masterpiece of creative non-fiction. Also very highly recommended are her two earlier books: "Legacy of Shadows" (Three Arts press, 1999) and "The Gate of Dreams" (Cranbrook Press, 1993), both of which are available from Three Arts Press.