Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen
Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that
comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is
an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood
or Dorothy Allison's One or Two Things I Know for Sure, Kuusisto's
memoir highlights periods of childhood when a writer first becomes
aware of his curiosity and imagination. As a boy he listened to
Caruso records in his grandmother's attic and spent hours in the
New Hampshire woods learning the calls of birds. As a grown man the
writer visits cities around the world in order to discover the art
of sightseeing by ear. Whether the reader is interested in
disability, American poetry, music, travel, or the art of
eavesdropping, he or she will find much to hear and even "see" in
this unique celebration of a hearing life.
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