Look Here Look Away Look Again

Edward Carson

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780773557666
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Canadian Poetry
• Index: Literature

an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded // A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question those viewing it are asking themselves. From the intimate starting point of observer and observed, Carson's seductive, exhilarating new collection turns poetry and paintings, making and representation, language and thought on their heads.

Table of contents

• COVER
• COPYRIGHT
• CONTENTS
• Pattern Recognition
• SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
• Agapanthus Triptych
• LOOK HERE
• LOOK AWAY
• LOOK AGAIN
• Constellations
• SUNRISE
• THE ESCAPE LADDER
• PEOPLE AT NIGHT GUIDED BY THEPHOSPHORESCENT TRACKS OF SNAILS
• WOMEN ON THE BEACH
• WOMAN WITH BLOND ARMPIT COMBINGHER HAIR BY THE LIGHT OF THE STARS
• MORNING STAR
• WOUNDED FIGURE
• WOMAN AND BIRDS
• WOMAN IN THE NIGHT
• ACROBATIC DANCERS
• THE NIGHTINGALE’S SONG AT MIDNIGHT AND MORNING RAIN
• ON THE 13TH THE LADDER BRUSHEDTHE FIRMAMENT
• NOCTURNE
• THE POETESS
• AWAKENING IN THE EARLY MORNING
• TOWARD THE RAINBOW
• WOMEN ENCIRCLED BY THE FLIGHT OF A BIRD
• WOMEN AT THE EDGE OF THE LAKE MADE IRIDESCENT BY THE PASSAGE OF A SWAN
• THE MIGRATORY BIRD
• CIPHERS AND CONSTELLATIONS IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN
• THE BEAUTIFUL BIRD REVEALINGTHE UNKNOWN TO A PAIR OF LOVERS
• THE PINK DUSK CARESSES THE SEXOF WOMEN AND BIRDS
• THE PASSAGE OF THE DIVINE BIRD
• Confluence
• TRIPTYCH WITH SWALLOWSAND BLOSSOMING LILIES SURVIVES A VOLCANO 1650–1550 BC
• 541 MILLION YEARS AGO THE CAMBRIANEXPLOSION SPAWNS A EUKARYOTIC CELL
• A BIRD’S EYE VIEW (IN PROPORTION) OF VITRUVIAN MAN LAID FLAT ON HIS BACK
• FLYING AWAY IN FEAR A STARTLED FLOCK OF BIRDS EMERGES FROM A DARK WOOD
• THE SALVATOR MUNDI’S GHOST EMERGESAS NEURAL NETWORKS REWORK THE MIND
• THE CONSTELLATIONS OF ABSTRACT ARTCONSOLIDATE AS HISTORY IN A HURRY
• FROM THE CENTRE THE ARTIST VIEWS THE FIGURE OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES
• TRAJECTORY OF AN ESCAPE LADDERIN A NIGHT FLIGHT TO THE PLEIADES
• A GIRL AND PEARL AND A TURBANCAPTURE THE VIEWER’S ATTENTION
• A HUE AND CRY IN A DROVE OF BIRDS HAS A HABIT OF TUMBLING OUT OF US
• GIACOMETTI’S FASCINATION WITH THE GAZE IN PORTRAITS THAT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PERSON
• AN ART OF RESEMBLANCE AS EXACT RESEMBLANCE IS NO ORDINARY LIE
• ESCHER LANDSCAPE WITH FLIGHT OF STAIRS LEADING EVERY WHICH WAY
• WE ARE WHO WE ARE WHEN WE ARE IS HOW WE WILL EVENTUALLY APPEAR
• WOMAN 1 EMERGES WITH ITS CORRECT ALLOTMENT OF FOUR ANATOMICAL PARTS
• THE STRING OF INFORMATION PLOTSTHE GENOME OF ESCAPE AND RETURN
• “YOU LOOK OUT AT THE WORLD WITH ONE EYE AND INTO YOURSELF WITH THE OTHER”
• WHEN EXUBERANCE OF THE WHOLE IS AT ODDS WITH THE SUM OF ITS PARTS
• WHAT DEMOISELLES SAID TO THE VIEWERUPON SEEING THE PAINTING COMPLETED
• CONVERGENCE OF THE UNOBSERVED IN ASPLICING-BASED ANALYSIS OF VARIANTS
• MOTHERWELL’S ELEGY TO THE SPANISH REPUBLIC IS TIME REPEATING ITSELF
• ATTACKING THE CANVAS SEEMED LIKE ONE OF THE BETTER IDEAS AT THE TIME
• HOW IN UNGUARDED MOMENTS WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT A PAINTING
• CODA
• THANKS & NOTES