{"product_id":"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 While drinking tea\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; hearing rain That the word for birth\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; the one for sin Come from a single root In Finnish — that tongue they Spoke when I was small.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynnty\u003ci\u003e, untranslatable,\u003cbr\u003eOriginal sin nearly,\u003cbr\u003eBut softer,\u003cbr\u003eLike water Carried a long way In a jar In 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057216143600,"sku":"9781556593864","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593864_p0.jpg?v=1763754292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}