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 harbor in Helsinki, "still...
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