She calls that poetry? Tut, tut!
Prat
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:09 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: We should scan this. Fw: Book Review:
"BlindSight: Come and See" by Jane L. Toleno
She sounds exactly like all of you. When I read the
review there were all the opinions and explanations
you all kindly provided and expressed here recently.
Cindy
--- Allison Mervis <allisonfm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all!
This looks like an interesting book. We should try
and get it scanned.
Allison
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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: Book Review: "BlindSight: Come and See" by
Jane L. Toleno
> TwinCities.com, Minnesota USA
> Sunday, February 18, 2007
>
> Book Review: "BlindSight: Come and See" by Jane L.
Toleno
>
> By MARY ANN GROSSMANN
>
> (Extract)
>
> "BlindSight: Come and See" by Jane L. Toleno
(Singing River Publications,
> $17.95): When I finished reading this memoir about
living with blindness,
> I thought Jane Toleno is a remarkable woman. But,
based on her feisty
> attitude, she probably wouldn't want to be
described that way.
>
> "I do not want to be described as differently
abled, handi-capable, a
> survivor or the like. Blind will do," she writes.
>
> "BlindSight" is Toleno's first-person account of
how she perceives the
> world as a legally blind person. She and her twin
sister were premature,
> and the pure oxygen pumped into their tents
damaged their eyes. Jane later
> had an eye trauma that limited her sight even
more. She is married, the
> mother of two children, and lives in Minnesota,
although the book doesn't
> say where.
>
> In "BlindSight," Toleno weaves accounts of her
personal life into
> explanations of how she perceives light and dark
and the seasons, using
> both narrative and poetry.
>
> She admits to being sometimes irked by the boorish
behavior of some
> people, especially those who don't understand how
to behave around her
> guide dog. That's why this book is so important,
especially for young
> readers.
>
> Besides, Toleno is a lovely poet. Here are the
first lines of her poem "My
> Physical World":
>
> "In my physical world, there is no sky;/But there
is air and there is
> earth./There are perceived, yet no visible
stars;/But there is sun and
> there are clouds./Summer sun packs heat./And even
I squint up at her glare
> ."
>
> "BlindSight" is published by a small press based
in Ely. It should be
> picked up by a major publisher, because more
readers need to meet Jane
> Toleno.
>
>
>
>
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