The Quiet Ear
An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir
A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet—a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action
“Expansive, generous, and massively tender.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Beautifully complicates and expands our understanding of what deafness is . . . a book that changed how I will move through the world.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed
I live with the aid of deafness. Like poetry, it has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through. This book charts that art in the hopes of offering a map, a mirror, a small part of a larger story.
Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he…