02565cam a22004218i 4500 BJBSDDR 20231020150941.0 ta 210322s2021 nyu 001 0 eng 9780393540758 0393540758 BJBSDDR eng BJBSDDR eng pcc PN 6071 G459 2021 808.8/036 Gigantic cinema : a weather anthology / edited by Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan. First American edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. 242 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. Contents--Preface ix---Gigantic Cinema---1---acknowledgements---219---Glossaru---227---Index of authors and titles---229. "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. Provided by publisher. Nature. Literary collections. 30691 Weather. Literary collections. 30690 Meteorology in literature. 30689 Tiempo en la literatura 32675 Meteorología en la literatura 32676 Oswald, Alice, 1966- editor 30476 Keegan, Paul editor. 30477 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK rmza 119715 119715 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-06-19 0 PN 6071 G459 2021 00000170823 2023-06-19 00:00:00 1 2023-06-19 BK