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About this book
'[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.'
Sunday Times
'Remarkable, visionary.' CELIA PAUL
'Indescribably brilliant.'
Daily Telegraph
'Kaleidoscopic.'
Guardian
'A rare pleasure . . . rewarding and thought-provoking.'
Irish Times
From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist,
The Vast Extent is a constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages and scientific scrutiny with a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other.
In this original and illuminating work, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to observe our world and beyond with a new sensitivity.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- One thing beside another (a foreword)
- Caves, sleep, absence of light
- Solidity, appearance, dullness
- Distance, deception, glow of fire
- Boredom, repetition, fixatives
- Seeing clearly, glimpsing, picturing
- Becoming, resistance, dissolve
- Black and white and colour
- The body, open, itself
- Peering and noticing, flits and swerves
- Pattern, machinery, punctuation
- Staying put, locked doors, wallpaper
- Eye-catchers, furniture, peepshows
- Unanchoring, sinking, at sea
- Curiosity, wonder, rupture
- Disorder, slippage, glare
- Invisible, unseen
- The imagined image
- Further Reading
- Image Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright