Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan

A bright but severely handicapped young man writes his memoir (in the third person), giving the reader some sense of what it is to be trapped in a wheelchair and unable to speak. He learns to type by poking at a keyboard with a stick held in his mouth and he writes poetry which garners him recognition and a bit of fame. Unfortunately, his prose is extremely overwritten in a way that suggests poetry is really his forte. I had to ignore things I didn't understand and read lightly for plot. Here is an example of what I feel is overwriting: "Basted now by grace, his gabbled verse fused appeals for bygones of hurt feelings; answering from distance and direction, voiced fasts now breathed blessed, thistled relics of relief."