Flying Blind

by Gary Geddes

In 1993, after the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord, Gary Geddes travelled through Israel with the blind poet and scholar John Asfour, he serving as Asfour's eyes, Asfour as his tongue. The contrast between his friend's competence in the sighted world and his own incompetence in Asfour's Arabic world forced Geddes to ponder the blindness, physical and metaphoric, that is central to human nature. The poems in Flying Blind meditate on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864922329
• ISBN13: 9780864922328
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"