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A Note from Ryan KnightonFor fifteen years I've been going blind. That's a long stay in the twilight. How strange it still seems, to have come of age in a disappearing world, as I did. So much happens, but accounts are few. In Cockeyed, I wanted to gather the trials and errors that made a blind man. I've crashed forklifts, head-butted a highway, even hid in punk rock, where banging into things was respectable. Blindness wanted me to stay safe at home, but, for better or worse, I pretended to be a sighted teacher in South Korea, forgave apologetic muggers, and let myself into the houses of strangers. For what it's worth, my misadventures taught me what it can mean to fear, to listen, to vanish, to love, to self-destruct, and, finally, to let go. As my deaf partner used to say, going blind would be a heap easier if you wouldn't make it so hard. Probably, but I never got the manual. Doctors used to tell the story of a patient's disease. Hippocrates called these pathographies. But why not the other way around? My autopathography chronicles what blindness made me do, and what it made me see. The twilight years were long, but somehow I made it home, into this peculiar body and its view. |
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-329-6 Pub date: 05/29/06 Price: $23.95/0.00 Canada 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 288 pages Carton Quantity: 28 Autobiography, Biography, Memoir Selling Territory: US Rights: PAPERBACK ISBN 978-1-58648-440-8 Pub date: 05/28/07 Price: $14.99/0.00 Canada 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 288 pages Carton Quantity: 36 Memoir Selling Territory: US Pub history: |
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