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Magnetic Resonance ImagingJon Glover
Categories: 21st Century
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Sep 2008) 9781857549676 Out of Stock
Close your eyes to make
it large, larger, largest. Someone can see it and put it on film, so like a picture, so like an echo attracting and repelling across what you can only imagine as noise in a vast cathedral dome, knocking for a door, logged in your head, wordless. from ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging’
In hospital for a scan, Jon Glover became fascinated by the ways in which Magnetic Resonance Imaging creates pictures of the hidden processes of the nervous system. It could express what is already written within the human body, in all organic life and the earth itself. Whether in the hospital scanner or the vast particle accelerators exploring the fabric of the universe in laboratories deep underground in Geneva, the process of making atoms collide to reveal new meanings tells a story, written in the brain, on the walls of a cave, in a poem. The poems in Magnetic Resonance Imaging grew out of an enforced awareness of the fragility of the human body; they grow into an understanding of the indestructible force of the imaginative energy that constantly rearranges existing elements into new forms.
Cover image Half of the CMS inner tracker barrel, part of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva. Photograph copyright CERN. Cover design by StephenRaw.com.
Table of Contents
Upstate Again Came Back Coal Bags Bullet or Fossil Darkrooms: In the Box I Thought of Pretty Wing You’re Gone; Like Ears Blemish Dare Like Dead Driving Down The Beautiful Machines More Trash Risk Site Snakes Again Themselves Dry Walking, Not Waking Way Through Olana Seeing As Something Like Ancient Lost Poems Flying The Oh, Crying This The Sun Rocking Caen Caen and York Arms Button Box Duty Free The Function of Dreams Instruments Postwar The Study Floor Watch on Deck The MS Poems Back to the Diagnosis Cells My Mother’s Microscope Sucking a Pencil Pens Unpurchased Make Over Picture It as if from a Cave Like CERN CERN: Frontiers, Grave-Diggers Reformation A Shared Vision Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cast Adrift Altamira Time Travel Sound Waves Carbon Holdings Burnishing Digitised Returns Burnishing The Census Form Poem Furnace Fires Glimpse in the Furnace Shed Skin Filed for the Job 1946 for Safe Keeping In Postscript: Seeing As
'Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Jon Glover is my book of the year'
Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3 (December 2008) |
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