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.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773585607
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.A75
- LCCN Item number
- B58 2011eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 95 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230171 (OCoLC)805829829 (CaOOCEL)444012
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- A Different World 12
- Mediterranean Eyes 15
- The Blind Shepherd 20
- Call to Mind 22
- Admitting the Light 24
- Telling Her Stories 27
- The Straw Chair 29
- Uncle 31
- Silver Threads 32
- Wings 33
- December 25th 34
- The Intruder 35
- A Sunday in June 37
- Blindfold 38
- The Cutting Edge 40
- Surgery 42
- Ultimate 44
- Anticipation 45
- A Shot in the Paper 47
- Reflections 48
- Booting the PC 54
- Confined Kisses 56
- Did Not Own Up 58
- Beyond Belief 59
- In the Metro 61
- The Interview 64
- The Curtain’s Down 66
- Division of Labour 70
- Etched on the Mind 73
- Falling-Out 74
- Black Hole 76
- Eggs 80
- Morning Coffee 83
- Oblivious 85
- At Fifty-Five 87
- Passing Desires 89
- Repudiation 91
- Second Hand Love 93
- Short of History 96
- Waiting 98
- Casual Hand Shake 99
- We Only Meet in a Poem Now 102
- Acknowledgments 106
