The vast extent
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, ‘The Vast Extent’ is an ingenious 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, scientific scrutiny and a poet’s response, so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, from the Arctic at midwinter to a shingle spit in Norfolk at midsummer, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before or what helps us to see more clearly or persuades us to see what’s not there. Art, science, vision and memory inform one another in this original and illuminating work.
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‘[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.
| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 288 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 824.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
