My Modest Blindness

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(241 241 239 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>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 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(241 241 239 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>My Modest Blindness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(241 241 239 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> 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.</span></p>