This Fatal Looking Glass

Corless-Smith, Martin

ISBN 10: 098581117X / ISBN 13: 9780985811174

Published by SplitLevel Texts, Ann Arbor, 2015

About this Item

8vo, 227 pp.

Seller Inventory # 120031

Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Fatal Looking Glass
• Publisher: SplitLevel Texts, Ann Arbor
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098581117X
• ISBN 13: 9780985811174
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poetry. Fiction. "A man in his forties is walking along the embankment of the river Thames. He has recently abandoned his marriage and has thus imperilled his care and responsibility for his son whom he loves. He now does not know if he is experiencing freedom, or a condition of being irrevocably lost. Or are these the same? His brain, or so he has read, is a contorted maze of surfaces (he must look this up). But then what was the reality of the so called outside world? One so seldom saw or touched anything except a surface—that of the glittering river, for instance, which was like a looking glass, or like love. Unless one jumped in and drowned, that is. But then, might not life and death seem the same? Especially if one were a poet or a painter. Which he was. Both, I mean."—Nicholas Mosley

About the Author

Martin Corless-Smith was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. He is a poet, painter and essayist. His books of poetry include Of Piscator, COMPLETE TRAVELS (West House Books, 2000), NOTA (Fence Books, 2003), SWALLOWS (Fence Books, 2006), ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL (Fence Books, 2010), and BITTER GREEN (Fence Books, 2015). His first book of fiction, THIS FATAL LOOKING GLASS, was published by SplitLevel Texts in April, 2015. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Boise State University.