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In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss

In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss



When poet Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His new memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, straddling intersections of race, class, hearing and deafness. In today’s episode, Antrobus joins NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly for a discussion that touches on his connection with the creative deaf community in London, his dad’s DJ sets, and differences between British and American Sign Language.


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