Glass Is Elastic
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Glass Is Elastic

  1. 122 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Glass Is Elastic

About this book

Glass is Elastic is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see - what do we know - in a world experienced through lenses and screens? 'Don't blink. Nobody's / looking, nobody's seeing.' Jon Glover explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. We translate the shape of the world into maps, pixels, mathematical data; into stories that change in the telling. A central poem sequence links medicine, war and vision in the glass slides assembled in a pathology lab for research into narcolepsy after the First World War, nerves and brains laid bare as evidence, as names on a war memorial. In language that combines scientific rigour with the supple everyday, Glover surprises the reader into looking, into seeing the connections in a beautiful, frightening world.

Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781847771148
eBook ISBN
9781847776372
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Hand It On
  7. Mercator’s Projection
  8. National Grid
  9. Minute
  10. Don’t Go There
  11. Whithorn
  12. First Impressions and After
  13. Nothing Brighter or More Blank
  14. Evidence
  15. With Verbs
  16. Cold Gets Inside
  17. Breath
  18. Would It Were
  19. Re-Hanging the Pictures
  20. Narcolepsy
  21. Intravenous
  22. Brooklyn Bridge to the BQE
  23. And Personal
  24. Not That Great Expanding
  25. Today’s Last Site
  26. Key-Cutting
  27. Life
  28. Chewing Apple
  29. Inaudible, I Don’t Think
  30. Presentations
  31. The Cutlery Trade
  32. The Optician’s Shop Window
  33. Timing Playtime
  34. Slide Rule
  35. Two Childhood Sonnets
  36. Electric
  37. Hard Covered
  38. Gardens or Craters
  39. Looking at the Matterhorn, Honestly
  40. Snowfall
  41. The Road Was
  42. Icicles
  43. On Adelphi Street
  44. The End
  45. The War of 1812 Again
  46. Solder
  47. Classwork
  48. Bathing Sites on the Niagara River
  49. Gateways
  50. Dr Johnson Out and About
  51. Touring
  52. Getting to Staffa
  53. Steam Engines
  54. Back Story
  55. Gardening
  56. Macular Degeneration
  57. If and Only If
  58. Theorem
  59. A Narrative
  60. In the Late
  61. Today
  62. Tangent
  63. The Car Rolls Over and Out
  64. Euclid
  65. Divide the Years Down to Seconds
  66. Glass Is Elastic
  67. Generosity
  68. Shining
  69. Forsythia
  70. Disposables
  71. Tears
  72. Cut-Out
  73. Silence
  74. Nerve Fibres
  75. Note
  76. Sleeping Sickness, Narcolepsy and the ‘Narcolepsy’ sequence of poems
  77. About the Author
  78. Also by Jon Glover from Carcanet Press
  79. Copyright

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