Vision Poems
- Monet Refuses the Operation/ Lisel Mueller
- In praise of Darkness/ Borges
- Eyes: / William Matthews
- Eyes/ Laura Riding Jackson
- Eyesight/ A.R. Ammons
- Saccadic Masking/ Paige Lewis
- Cell/ Naomi Cohn
- Stranger by Night/ Edward Hirsch
- Natural Forces/ Vicente Huidobro
- I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses/ Diane Seuss
- Halos/ Ed Bok Lee
- Cataracts/ Linda Pastan
- My Glasses/ Jane Hirshfield
- Ekphrasis as Eye Test/ Jane Zwart + slide show with paintings
- Ekphrasis as Eye-Test/ Amit Majmudar
- Eye Exam/ Arthur Sze
- Pastoral/ Forest Gander
- Glaucoma/ Charlene Fix
- Psalm with Near Blindness/ Julia B. Levine
- Peripheral/ Hannah Emmerson
- Sight/ W.S. Merwin
- Blink/ Donna Vorreyer
- Large Print Poetry/ Quinn Gruber
Essays/CNF
- Blind Spot/ Teju Cole
- In Praise of Poetic Mess/ Naomi Cohn
- From Homer to Fante: Blindness
- Blind/ Iman Williams
- Entries from the Braille Encyclopedia/ Naomi Cohn
- In Light of a White Cane/ Naomi Cohn
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird/ Naomi Cohn
Emily Dickinson and Vision
- We grow accustomed to the Dark —/ Emily Dickinson in Fascicle 15 (1862)
- Before I got my eye put out — (336)/ Emily Dickinson in Fascicle 16
- Tell all the truth but tell it slant—/ Emily Dickinson
- Dickinson and Illness
- Emily Dickinson’s Ophthamalic Consultation
- Emily Dickinson’s Mystifying Insight
Books
- Sight Unseen/ Georgina Kleege
- There Plant Eyes/ M. Leona Godin
- Blind Man’s Bluff/ James Tate Hill
Projects/Tools
People
- Mariagrazia Buttitta (she has a different form of cone dystrophy than me)
Research/Resources
- Uncanny Valley
- The Astonishing Vision and Focus of Namibia’s nomads
- Face Blindness
- Mind the Gap
- Blind Spot
- A New Discovery Touching Vision
- How the Brain Recognizes What the Eyes See
- The Blind Spot and the Vanishing Head Illusion
- Occipital Lobe
- How Much of What You See is a hallucination? (video)
- Vision Loss Resources
- The Complexities of the Human Eye
- The Brain From Top to Bottom
- The Visual Cortex
- American Foundation for the Blind
- Thread on Dictation Software + Suggestions
- The Unseen Minority/ history of blindness first published in 1976
- Anatomy and Physiology of the afferant visual system
- How the Brain Processes Images
- vision and art/ online lecture, Margaret Livingstone
- All About Peripheral Vision
- Cones and Color Vision
- Central vs. Peripheral Vision
- Aldous Huxley’s The Art of Seeing
- What is it (Scotoma) and How does it affect one’s vision?
- The Problem with Depicting Central Vision Loss
- The painter who revealed how our eyes really see the world