02318cam a22003618i 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040002600102041000800128042000800136050002300144082001400167245008400181250002800265260004700293300002300340336002600363337002800389338002700417500002000444505012600464520113700590650003501727650003601762650003101798650002901829650003701858700003501895700002601930BJBSDDR20231020150941.0ta210322s2021    nyu           001 0 eng    a9780393540758  a0393540758  aBJBSDDRbengcBJBSDDR  aeng  apcc14aPN 6071bG459 202100a808.8/03600aGigantic cinema :ba weather anthology /cedited by Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan.  aFirst American edition.  aNew York :bW. W. Norton & Company,c2021.  a242 pages ;c22 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes index.  aContents--Preface ix---Gigantic Cinema---1---acknowledgements---219---Glossaru---227---Index of authors and titles---229.  a"A luminous anthology of poems and prose inspired by the weather, that mutable, impressionistic action on the stage of the day. In three hundred varied entries, Gigantic Cinema narrates the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn, through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night and back to dawn again. It includes reactions both formal and fleeting-weather rhymes, journals and jottings, diaries and letters-to the imaginary and actual drama unfolding above our heads. Ranging from Homer's winds and Ovid's flood to Frank O'Hara's sun, Pliny's reportage on the eruption of Vesuvius to Elizabeth Bishop's "Song for a Rainy Season," Gigantic Cinema offers an expansive collection of writing inspired by the commotion of the elements. Rather than drawing attention to authors and titles, entries appear bareheaded, exposed to each other's elements, as a medley of voices. Assembling a chorus of responses (ancient and modern, East and West) to air's manifold appearances, Gigantic Cinema offers a new perspective on the oldest conversation of all.cProvided by publisher. 0aNature.vLiterary collections. 0aWeather.vLiterary collections. 0aMeteorology in literature. 4aTiempo en la literatura  4aMeteorología en la literatura 1 aOswald, Alice, d1966-eeditor1 aKeegan, Pauleeditor.