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Blindfold, by John Mikhail Asfour

The Link's book reviewer Suzanne Hancock looks at Blindfold, John Asfour's deeply human meditation on exile and belonging. Blinded by a grenade as a teenager in Lebanon, Asfour's poems wrestle with disability, acceptance and estrangement.

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