Originally published: New York: Parabola Books, c1999.

Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) was blinded at age seven, formed a French Resistance group at age seventeen, and endured fifteen months at Buchenwald. He went on to teach at Case Western University in the United States and died in a car accident during a visit to France.

Introduction by Christopher Bamford

The Blind in Society

Blindness, a New Seeing of the World

What One Sees Without Eyes

Against the Pollution of the I

Jeremy

Poetry in Buchenwald