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    Glass Is Elastic
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    Glass Is Elastic

    By Jon Glover

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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 everyday, Glover surprises the reader into looking, into seeing the connections in a beautiful, frightening world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Poetry
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9781847776372
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    Glass Is Elastic
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    Jon Glover

    Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943. He grew up in Surrey/South London and moved to study in Leeds in 1962. Apart from a crucial year in America in 1966-67, and many summers with his wife and children, and her family, in Upstate New York, he has lived in Leeds and Bolton, Lancashire, ever since. He has written four books published by Carcanet and two pamphlets of poems published by Northern House. He has edited with Kathryn Jenner The Complete Poems of Jon Silkin (Northern House Carcanet 2015). He is Advisory Editor of Stand magazine, and coordinates the Northern House books for Carcanet. He is Professor Emeritus in English and Creative Writing at the University of Bolton, Honorary Fellow of the English Association, and Honorary Fellow of the School of English, University of Leeds. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bolton.

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