Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

by Paul Keegan and Alice Oswald

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393540758
• ISBN13: 9780393540758
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"