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Letters to Borges
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Letters to Borges
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Letters to Borges
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"[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor."
"A talented writer judged against any standard."
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 Borgesanother poet who lived with blindnessKuusisto leverages seeing as negative capability, creating intimacy with deep imagination and uncommon perceptions.
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is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of two collections of poetry and two memoirs, including the best-selling
(W. W. Norton & Company, 1998). A graduate from and former teacher at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Kuusisto now teaches at Syracuse University in New York State.