Beating Shoes: Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There is one physical fact which the reader must know if he would understand the following pieces fully: their author has been blind nearly all his life. That is Why in these pages the World becomes a complex of sound, touch and smell. No com miseration is called for on this account, because a mind cut Off from Visual forms will find greater value and significance in what remains.

To the Proprietors of jo/m 0' London? Permission to reprint Solitude.

To the National Institute for the Blind for permission to include touch-landscape, Black cap, The Poplar, The Return to Otmoor, A Walk, Encounter With a Wren, The basket-makers, Aeroplanes, and Rest.

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