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I’m Naomi Cohn, writer and teaching artist. My work includes poetry, prose and pieces that defy easy categories. I write about nature (especially birds), art-making, and disability—specifically my own experiences living with vision loss and observations of society’s responses to disability.
From Rose Metal Press
The Braille Encyclopedia
Brief Essays on Altered Sight
An award-winning meditation on progressive vision loss that is poignant, playful, and wry, providing a literary reckoning of the technical and emotional aspects of facing the loss of sight.
Praise
“The Braille Encyclopedia shimmers—poetry in paragraph form. Compelling, often humorous entries show declining vision along with acute awareness.”
Ranae Lenor Hanson
Author of Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress
“…observations that can be as nuanced as they are sweeping. There is an impressive unity to this collection and a momentum that casts a spell as the pages turn.”
Ilya Kaminsky
Author of Deaf Republic
“A wonderful, wide-ranging rendering of a life in love with words and the world words make.”
Sean Hill
Author of Dangerous Goods
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