Steven Harris was learning first words and had been walking for three weeks when his babysitter violently shook him. The doctors did not think he would live. He did.



His book of poems tells the story of a beautiful, powerful mind within a body that so far cannot respond. Steven, like countless others who live alone amidst families or institutions, had no outlet for an extraordinary intelligence that is every childs birthright and that can develop profoundly in children who seem helpless due to brain damage. But Steve and his father Jim learned to communicate with a simple card that...