COCKEYED: A MEMOIR OF BLINDNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 12760006B00185

English Summary/英文概要： RYAN KNIGHTON’S STORY OF HIS SLOW DESCENT INTO BLINDNESS SHINES A NEW LIGHT ON WHAT BLINDNESS MEANS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ON WHAT WE CAN KNOW ABOUT THE BROADER WORLD THROUGH UNSEEING EYES

In this penetrating, hysterical memoir, which ricochets between meditation and the blackest of comedy, Knighton sets out to surprise readers and to expand the potential of the memoir form itself. Here, blindness is more than a topic, and more than his own story. He transforms his disability quite literally into a radical point of view, one through which the world of the sighted is ultimately revealed in all its phenomenal peculiarity.
Knighton’s book moves well beyond the common confessional mode of other kindred books. He braves a critical understanding of other subjects through his blindness. Cockeyed goes beyond the personal, and the language, while lively and accessible, achieves fresh poignancy at every turn of phrase. It is far too restless and nervy a book to be subdued by pop-psychology, or to be retired to its couch. Like Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness, it uses disability to provide a window onto the human condition.
Knighton is only 32, a published poet, fiction writer and journalist. Not many other authors combine punk rock, tattoos and English professorship. It’s a combination that promises both sharp-and-sharply barbed prose. He is writing at the final stages of a fourteen year descent into blindness, and therefore captures the urgent immediacy of his experience, reporting from the front lines. Knighton takes readers to South Korea, where he taught English to five-year-olds and struggled to hide his blindness for six months; to the salt mines of Poland, where Knighton first learned how people can make him disappear, blind themselves to avoid his disability; to an island retreat for the blind, where Knighton confronted his own fear of blind people, not to mention his hilarious failures as a boy scout.
Cockeyed is a comically rich, acutely incisive collection about our bodies, our senses, our language, our culture and our fantasies and fears. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in words and thought, and impatient with the preciousness around him we’ve come to expect from books about disability. Readers of all ages and interests will find it hard to put down this wild ride around the world with a blind guide at the wheel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本富有艺术的并且带有悲剧色彩的关于盲人的成长记录的回忆录，也展示了真实的作者和我们每个人。
在他的第18个生日，Ryan Knighton被诊断出有视网膜炎，是一种先天的疾病俗称夜盲症，而且也有可能会失明。Knighton把他在15年里渐渐的失明故事告诉我们。Knighton开始学习用拐杖，与他的韩国学生交流，并且认识了一个聋哑女孩。他用一种盲人的视野来告诉我们他理解的文化，语言，和生活中的各种细节。使读者可以了解一个盲人的世界。

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About the Author/作者介绍： On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital disease marked by a progressive pathology of night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In 1995 he completed a BA (Hons) in English at Simon Fraser University and then, after teaching in South Korea for a year, began his MA, again at SFU, completing it in 1998. That same year, at the age of 25, he was hired by Capilano College’s English Department to teach contemporary literature, pop-culture, rhetoric and creative writing. He also served for two years as editor of The Capilano Review.
In 2001, Knighton published a well-received book of poetry called Swing in the Hollow (Anvil Press). The following year, he co-authored and published a collection of short fiction with George Bowering called Cars (Coach House Books). Knighton has also published widely as a journalist and essayist in The Vancouver Sun and in such popular magazines as Utne, Saturday Night, and Geist. Since 2001, he has frequently worked for CBC’s celebrated pop-culture show, Definitely Not the Opera, for which he has produced, written, and performed radio monologues and documentaries about blindness. Knighton has also traveled across Canada to give public readings and lectures. Ryan Knighton is in the last stage before total blindness.
Ryan Knighton 在范库佛峰Capilano大学教文学，还为文学杂志做了2年的编辑。他还出版过几部小说和诗集作品，并出演一些电台节目的独角戏和CBC关于盲人的记录片。

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