The Glass Age - Softcover

Swensen, Cole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882295609 ISBN 13: 9781882295609

Publisher: Alice James Books, 2007

Synopsis

The post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard painted, among other things, dozens of paintings of windows. Starting there, this extended poem—part art criticism, part history—considers the phenomenon of glass, revealing the strength and fragility of our age in the minimalist style that has won Cole Swensen such acclaim.

About this title

About the Author:

Cole Swensen is the author of ten previous books of poetry including Goest, which was a National Book Award Finalist. She has also won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and a National Poetry Series selection, as well as grants for translating and writing. She is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

From The Open Window”:

Photography replaced the river, which, due to
unexpected complications, resulted in the Great Age
of the Train. Bonnard started photographing just as
the snapshot became possible. Glass negatives gave
way to strips of film, and the river froze, intact. In
shadow and light, the Seine, said Marthe, standing in
the garden, frame after frame. We are multiplying the
things we can and do see through.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1882295609
• ISBN 13: 9781882295609
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80