"[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 Borges—another poet who lived with blindness—Kuusisto leverages seeing as negative capability, creating intimacy with deep imagination and uncommon perceptions. Synnty 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.