{"product_id":"gigantic-cinema-a-weather-anthology-9780393540758","title":"Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn three hundred varied entries, \u003cem\u003eGigantic Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging 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,\" \u003cem\u003eGigantic Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e offers an expansive collection of writing inspired by the commotion of the elements. Rather than drawing attention to authors and titles, entries appear as a medley of voices; as editors Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan write in their stunning introduction, the excerpts ask to be read \"with no hat, no coat, no preconceptions, encountering each voice abruptly, as an exclamation brought on by the weather.\" Assembling a chorus of responses (ancient and modern, East and West) to air's manifold appearances, \u003cem\u003eGigantic Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new perspective on the oldest conversation of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeegan, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Keegan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Penguin Book of English Verse\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in London.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378296557842,"sku":"9780393540758","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_56fe5ce7-2b57-4f7c-b422-b8b90bb6731e.jpg?v=1728644614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gigantic-cinema-a-weather-anthology-9780393540758","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}