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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Asfour John"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Blindfold / / John Mikhail Asfour"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9786613841704"]
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[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (106 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"The Hugh MacLennan poetry series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"C811/.54"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Blindness"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Poems."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"\"\"Cover\"\"; \"\"Contents\"\"; \"\"A Different World\"\"; \"\"Mediterranean Eyes\"\"; \"\"The Blind Shepherd\"\"; \"\"Call to Mind\"\"; \"\"Admitting the Light\"\"; \"\"Telling Her Stories\"\"; \"\"The Straw Chair\"\"; \"\"Uncle\"\"; \"\"Silver Threads\"\"; \"\"Wings\"\"; \"\"December 25th\"\"; \"\"The Intruder\"\"; \"\"A Sunday in June\"\"; \"\"Blindfold\"\"; \"\"The Cutting Edge\"\"; \"\"Surgery\"\"; \"\"Ultimate\"\"; \"\"Anticipation\"\"; \"\"A Shot in the Paper\"\"; \"\"Reflections\"\"; \"\"Booting the PC\"\"; \"\"Confined Kisses\"\"; \"\"Did Not Own Up\"\"; \"\"Beyond Belief\"\"; \"\"In the Metro\"\"; \"\"The Interview\"\"; \"\"The Curtainâ€?s Down\"\"; \"\"Division of Labour\"\"; \"\"Etched on the Mind\"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"Falling-Out\"\"\"\"Black Hole\"\"; \"\"Eggs\"\"; \"\"Morning Coffee\"\"; \"\"Oblivious\"\"; \"\"At Fifty-Five\"\"; \"\"Passing Desires\"\"; \"\"Repudiation\"\"; \"\"Second Hand Love\"\"; \"\"Short of History\"\"; \"\"Waiting\"\"; \"\"Casual Hand Shake\"\"; \"\"We Only Meet in a Poem Now\"\"; \"\"Acknowledgments\"\""]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the rich and surprising possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, Blindfold relates feelings of loss, displacement, and disorientation experienced not only by the disabled but by everyone who finds themselves separated from the norm. Silver Threads He "]
[{"$nulls":4},"recalls the absence of sound, the impossible silence the disappearance of light. He is only aware of the movement of his mother's hand inside her purse, looking for her handkerchief. He recalls her warning not to play with unknown objects the type that explode on impact. Later, he lies in the dark remembering how she pointed out the silver threads of the morning light just the day before and he sparkles with guilt."]