Glass is Elastic
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- ISBN 9781847771148
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"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 every day, Glover surprises the reader into looking, into seeing the connections in a beautiful, frightening world. Cover photograph Paul Maddern, Keel 14. Copyright A[copyright] Paul Maddern, reproduced by permission.
Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943 and was educated at the University of Leeds, where he met Jon Silkin, Ken Smtih, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Redgrove, David Wright and Jeffrey Wainwright and started to help produce and edit Stand magazine. He spent the year 1966-7 in the United States with his wife, Elaine, who comes from near Niagra Falls. In 1968 he moved to what has since become the University of Bolton, where he is currently Research Professor. Two previous books of poetry have been published by Carcanet. He edited The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (1989) with Jon Silkin, and is currently researching the Stand and Silkin archives held at the University of Leeds and working on a biography of Jon Silkin. He is now the Managing Editor of Stand.
