{"product_id":"letters-to-borges-by-stephen-kuusisto","title":"Kuusisto, Stephen: Letters to Borges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters to Borges \u003c\/em\u003eby Stephen Kuusisto (Copper Canyon Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 26, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003ePoetry. LETTERS TO BORGES is the most recent collection of poetry by best-selling memoirist Stephen Kuusisto. Here, Kuusisto shows how \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eseeing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a negative capability rather than a sense. Blindness becomes a kaleidoscope through which voids and indistinctions are colored with imagination, where \"poetry carves a topiary garden out of dust.\" The great cities of the world—Vienna, London, Buenos Aires—provide locales both imaginary and real from which to address Jorge Luis Borges, a poet who, like Kuusisto himself, lived with blindness. With Borges alongside, Kuusisto finds \"Aristotle and algebra\" in all the different kinds of rain and considers the possibility of using a dishwasher to celebrate revolutions while bringing back the dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337269886999,"sku":"9781556593864","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_c69d0719-c77b-4da1-b4d7-4140815ac4f3.jpg?v=1586745889","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-to-borges-by-stephen-kuusisto","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}