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“stephen kuusisto”

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  • Close Escapes

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    Navigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor, Close Escapes searches for an answer to our earthly existence by way of visions only the blind can see.“Never 'in' time,” Stephen Kuusisto’s third poetry collection, Close Escapes, moves through a river of memory. In one poem, Kuusisto is “the blind kid again,” pressing his finger to a cornered spider. In another, he walks down a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Have Dog, Will Travel

    A Poet's Journey

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted. Stephen attended public school, rode a bike, and read ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Planet of the Blind

    A Memoir

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    "The world is a surreal pageant," writes Stephen Kuusisto. "Ahead of me the shapes and colors suggest the sails of Tristan's ship or an elephant's ear floating in air, though in reality it is a middle-aged man in a London Fog rain coat which billows behind him in the April wind."So begins Kuusisto's memoir, Planet of the Blind, a journey through the kaleidoscope geography of the partially-sighted, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Letters to Borges

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    "[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor."-The New York Times"A talented writer judged against any standard."-USA TodayBest-selling memoirist Stephen Kuusisto uses the themes of travel, place, religion, music, art, and loneliness to explore the relationship between seeing, blindness, and being. In poems addressed to Jorge Luis Borges-another ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Eavesdropping

    A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    A memoir of blindness and listening rendered with a poet's delight by the author of the acclaimed Planet of the Blind.Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Do Not Interrupt

    A Playful Take on the Art of Conversation

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    In this erudite and playful primer on the art of conversation Stephen Kuusisto vigorously tackles the slippery subject of how to converse meaningfully with others. Kuusisto employs a wide range of personal anecdotes, classical texts, and an engaging style to illustrate his points. In seven short, provocative and imaginatively wrought chapters, he spins a compelling argument for the joys of “being ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Only Bread, Only Light

    Poems

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of poetry’s reliance upon visual imagery with Kuusisto’s own sightlessness, these poems cultivate a world of listening: to the natural world, to the voices of family and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Planet of the Blind

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    Narrated by Brian Keeler ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Blindness in the 195Os was a social stigma. Stephen's mother wanted a normal life for him, so he fought desperately to uphold the illusion of sight.For a child frantic to fit in, each day was an exhausting pretence. He managed to ride a bike, when even reading involved pressing his nose to the page and painfully forcing his eyes to concentrate. Head up, he strode through a carefully memorized ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Have Dog, Will Travel

    A Poet's Journey with an Exceptional Labrador

    by Stephen Kuusisto ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted. Stephen attended public school, rode a bike, and read ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Capturing the Innovation Opportunity Space

    Creating Business Models with New Forms of Innovation​

    by Stephen Flowers, Martin Meyer, Jari Kuusisto ...
    Innovation is changing and this exciting book explores how the shift to more collaborative ways of working with users, online communities and the crowd opens up novel business possibilities. The Innovation Opportunity Space approach enables managers, policymakers and academics to better understand emerging new business opportunities. Drawing on the findings of the latest international research, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Poems

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  • Refusing Heaven

    Poems

    by Jack Gilbert ...
    More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and ... Read more

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