'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling,
omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27
September 1802 This anthology of poems and prose ranges from
literary weather - Homer's winds, Ovid's flood - to scientific
reportage, whether Pliny on the eruption of Vesuvius or Victorian
theories of the death of the sun. It includes imaginary as well as
actual responses to what is transitory, and reactions both formal
and fleeting - weather rhymes, journals and jottings, diaries and
letters - to the drama unfolding above our heads. The entries
narrate 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. Rather than
drawing attention to authors and titles, entries appear bareheaded,
exposed to each other's elements, as a medley of voices. Rather
than adding to our image of nature as a suffering solid, the
anthology attends to patterns, events and forces: seasonal and
endless, invisible, ephemeral, sudden, catastrophic. And by
assembling a chorus of responses (ancient and modern, East and
West) to air's manifold appearances, Gigantic Cinema offers a new
perspective on what is the oldest conversation of all.
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