Glass Float

by Jane Munro

Waves carried a glass float—designed to hold up a fishing net—across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone’s breath is inside it. In Glass Float, her seventh collection, award-winning poet Jane Munro considers the widening of horizons that border and shape our lives, the familiarity and mystery of conscious experience, and the deepening awareness that comes with a dedicated practice such as yoga. This book is about connections: mind and body; self and others; physical and metaphysical; art and nature; west and east, north and south. In “Convexities,” the book’s opening poem, Munro quotes the grandfather who taught her to paint: “art is suggestion; art is not representation.” No concavities, he said. Only the “little hummocks” that her pencil outlined as she did contour drawings. Munro’s deft suggestion, her tracing of convexities, conveys underlying complexities, not by explication but by looking with eyes and heart open to where mysteries almost surface.

Genres: Poetry

83 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2020

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Words to return to again and again when spirits are low.

[Aingeal Stone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deep, and meaningful verses written about the authors experien e's at yoga retreats, mostly.

[Arwyn King · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve never just read straight through a poetry book. It was interesting. At first, I felt disconnected but then we got into yoga poems and I was captured.