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Blindfold

Blindfold

Asfour, John

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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry, Book 22

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 077353847X
ISBN13: 9780773538474
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Mar 22 2011
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.01 Depth: 7.49
Language: English

Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them. Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is magnified in our minds. In a series of thematically linked poems, Asfour draws the metaphor of the blindfold across the eyes of sighted citizens who are impaired by estrangement, emotional complexity, and social pressures.

A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the rich and surprising possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, Blindfold relates feelings of loss, displacement, and disorientation experienced not only by the disabled but by everyone who finds themselves separated from the norm.

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