{"product_id":"letters-to-borges-9781556593864","title":"Letters to Borges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A talented writer judged against any standard.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Alone\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToday I understood\u003cbr\u003eWhile drinking tea\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; hearing rain\u003cbr\u003eThat the word for birth\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; the one for sin\u003cbr\u003eCome from a single root\u003cbr\u003eIn Finnish -- that tongue they\u003cbr\u003eSpoke when I was small.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynnty\u003ci\u003e, untranslatable, \u003cbr\u003eOriginal sin nearly, \u003cbr\u003eBut softer, \u003cbr\u003eLike water\u003cbr\u003eCarried a long way\u003cbr\u003eIn a jar\u003cbr\u003eIn May.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Kuusisto\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of two collections of poetry and two memoirs, including the best-selling \u003ci\u003ePlanet of the Blind\u003c\/i\u003e (W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 1998). A graduate from and former teacher at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Kuusisto now teaches at Syracuse University in New York State.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556593864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen Kuusisto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087319363765,"sku":"9781556593864","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aff7f664-942c-49d0-889a-788728fee24d.jpg?v=1714457495","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/letters-to-borges-9781556593864","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}