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Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

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We never understood why talking about the weather seemed trite — it affects us too greatly. We’re never without it — whether in metaphor (here comes that fellow with the cloud over his head) or simple daily salutation (may the wind be at your back). A proper and exalting celebration of the sun, the rain, the clouds and the rumbles of thunder deep into the night, put your arms up like Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Call on the sky to tumble down on us. Read this book. There’s a storm coming.

A luminous, "deliciously playful" (Rishi Dastidar, Guardian) anthology of poems and prose inspired by the weather.

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 unf...