The Blind Eye: A Book of Late Advice

Description

The Blind Eye is a collection of Don Paterson's funny, irreverent and wise aphorisms. This collection not only entertains but also leads us to ponder on the dark and light that make up the human condition. It's a book to carry and open anywhere - to lighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'It is possible for a woman to say, honestly, that she has thought of her lover all day long - but she will neglect to mention the twenty other things she has kept in her head at the same time. A man ignorant of this ability will be terrified by her declaration, since were it to be his . . . it would be a straightforward admission of his own derangement.'

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor, and teaches at the University of St Andrews. He has written four collections of poetry: Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women (winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), The Eyes and Landing Light (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize). His most recent work, Orpheus, is a version of Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus. His first collection of aphorisms, The Book of Shadows, was published in 2004.