Blindsight features poems written and performed by Ricardo Sternberg. In the tradition of the great magic realists, Sternberg weaves a world from everyday wonders—a tango musician takes flight, a man falls in love with the figurehead of a ship, constellations make love in the sky. As boundaries become fluid we see into the life of things, the crow and the scarecrow, the mermaid and the madwoman.

Sternberg has the ear of a poet and the eye of a painter. Most of all, he is blessed with a storyteller’s tongue.

Ricardo Sternberg's previous books include The Invention of Honey, Map of Dreams, Bamboo Church, and Some Dance. He is also the author of a book on the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. His poetry has been widely published on both sides of the border in journals such as Descant, The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry (Chicago) and Ploughshares. He lives in Toronto.

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