Zero Gravity
by Lewis, GwynethFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-11-15
Publisher(s): Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary
Gwyneth Lewis's Zero Gravity treads new territory for poetry. Its title sequence is part space documentary, part requiem, drawing on her experience of watching her American cousin, astronaut Joe Tanner, helping to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. As well as reaching out to a loved one engaged on a dangerous mission in outer space, the poem considers internal journeys, including death, that we all have to undertake. The whole collection uses fables of self to view scenes from a marriage and to describe the experience of simply seeing.
Table of Contents
| Zero Gravity | p. 11 |
| Coconut Postcards | p. 31 |
| The Love of Furniture | p. 35 |
| The Booming Bittern | p. 40 |
| Good Dog! | p. 41 |
| Peripheral Vision | p. 42 |
| I 'Not everyone sees it' | p. 42 |
| II The gods still walk around South Wales | p. 43 |
| III View from an ocean-going liner | p. 44 |
| Soul Candles | p. 46 |
| Flyover Elegies | p. 48 |
| Drought | p. 52 |
| Talk with a Headache | p. 53 |
| Spring | p. 55 |
| Menage a Trois | p. 56 |
| I Body | p. 56 |
| II Soul | p. 56 |
| III Third Party | p. 57 |
| Prayer for Bandy | p. 58 |
| 'One day, feeling hungry' | p. 59 |
| The Pier | p. 60 |
| I 'A poet has four bodies' | p. 60 |
| II 'Even a healthy heart is lame' | p. 61 |
| III 'The wind on Bangor Pier draws tears' | p. 62 |
| Stone Walls | p. 65 |
| Woods | p. 66 |
| Red Kites at Tregaron | p. 67 |
| Hermits | p. 68 |
| Stone Circle | p. 69 |
| Ancient Aunties | p. 70 |
| The Mind Museum | p. 71 |
| I The Museum Curator Greets the Dawn | p. 71 |
| II History Lesson | p. 72 |
| III Website Future | p. 73 |
| IV Communications | p. 74 |
| V On Duty | p. 75 |
| VI Night Galleries | p. 76 |
| Will and the Wall | p. 77 |
| The Flaggy Shore | p. 80 |
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