Glass Is Elastic

Jon Glover

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781847771148
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847776372
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

Featuring a fascination with the fragility of the body, this compilation is a philosophical and scientific exploration of "ways of seeing." Examining a variety of lenses, including that of the eye, the microscope, and the camera, the poet's accomplished lyricism weaves together themes of war, medicine, and vision.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Hand It On
• Mercator’s Projection
• National Grid
• Minute
• Don’t Go There
• Whithorn
• First Impressions and After
• Nothing Brighter or More Blank
• Evidence
• With Verbs
• Cold Gets Inside
• Breath
• Would It Were
• Re-Hanging the Pictures
• Narcolepsy
• Intravenous
• Brooklyn Bridge to the BQE
• And Personal
• Not That Great Expanding
• Today’s Last Site
• Key-Cutting
• Life
• Chewing Apple
• Inaudible, I Don’t Think
• Presentations
• The Cutlery Trade
• The Optician’s Shop Window
• Timing Playtime
• Slide Rule
• Two Childhood Sonnets
• Electric
• Hard Covered
• Gardens or Craters
• Looking at the Matterhorn, Honestly
• Snowfall
• The Road Was
• Icicles
• On Adelphi Street
• The End
• The War of 1812 Again
• Solder
• Classwork
• Bathing Sites on the Niagara River
• Gateways
• Dr Johnson Out and About
• Touring
• Getting to Staffa
• Steam Engines
• Back Story
• Gardening
• Macular Degeneration
• If and Only If
• Theorem
• A Narrative
• In the Late
• Today
• Tangent
• The Car Rolls Over and Out
• Euclid
• Divide the Years Down to Seconds
• Glass Is Elastic
• Generosity
• Shining
• Forsythia
• Disposables
• Tears
• Cut-Out
• Silence
• Nerve Fibres
• Note
• Sleeping Sickness, Narcolepsy and the ‘Narcolepsy’ sequence of poems
• About the Author
• Also by Jon Glover from Carcanet Press
• Copyright