Blindfold
( Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series )
Publication series ：Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780773585607
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773538474
Subject： I106.2 Poetry
Keyword： 文学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.