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My Modest Blindness

My Modest Blindness

Brakefield, Russell

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1957392266
ISBN13: 9781957392264
Publisher: Autofocus Books
Published: Oct 17 2023
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In his late twenties, poet Russell Brakefield is diagnosed with keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition that causes blurred vision, light sensitivity, and progressive loss of sight. In the years after, his condition worsens. In My Modest Blindness, he traverses this blurry landscape, drawing connections to art, literature, natural history, and pop culture. Part celebration and part lament, this book uses a sustained conversation with Jorge Luis Borges's famous lecture On Blindness, as well as a catalogue of delights of the visual world in the moments just before it leaves, to examine what it means to be a writer and a person slowly losing his ability to see.

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