Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the

Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance â€” and survive the Nazisâ€™ Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir And There Was Light. In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known. In â€œPoetry in Buchenwald,â€ he describes the unexpected nourishment he and his fellow prisoners found in poetry. In â€œWhat One Sees Without Eyesâ€ he describes a divine inner light available to all. Just as Lusseyran transcended his most difficult experiences, his writings give triumphant voice to the human ability to see beyond sight and act with unexpected heroism.
Country USA
Manufacturer New World Library
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-01-15
Format Kindle eBook

Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness