The Vast Extent
eBook - ePub

The Vast Extent

On Seeing and Not Seeing Further

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eBook - ePub

The Vast Extent

On Seeing and Not Seeing Further

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

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Epigraph
  6. One thing beside another (a foreword)
  7. Caves, sleep, absence of light
  8. Solidity, appearance, dullness
  9. Distance, deception, glow of fire
  10. Boredom, repetition, fixatives
  11. Seeing clearly, glimpsing, picturing
  12. Becoming, resistance, dissolve
  13. Black and white and colour
  14. The body, open, itself
  15. Peering and noticing, flits and swerves
  16. Pattern, machinery, punctuation
  17. Staying put, locked doors, wallpaper
  18. Eye-catchers, furniture, peepshows
  19. Unanchoring, sinking, at sea
  20. Curiosity, wonder, rupture
  21. Disorder, slippage, glare
  22. Invisible, unseen
  23. The imagined image
  24. Further Reading
  25. Image Credits
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Index
  28. About the Author
  29. By the Same Author
  30. Copyright