Letters to Borges
By: Stephen Kuusisto
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781556593864
Description: Best-selling memoirist Stephen Kuusisto uses the themes of travel, place, religion, music, art, and loneliness to explore the relationship between seeing, blindness, and being. In poems addressed to Jorge Luis Borges--another poet who lived with blindness--Kuusisto leverages seeing as negative capability, creating intimacy with deep imagination and uncommon perceptions.