Joshua Corey is a poet, critic, translator, and novelist whose most recent books include Hannah and the Master (MadHat Press, 2021) and How Long Is Now (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). He lives in Evanston, Illinois and a professor of English at Lake Forest College.
Joshua Corey
Contributions
Poetics of Liveliness: Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds by Ada Smailbegović
Lisa Robertson’s 2001 book The Weather is a classic of the post-pastoral, in which the “architecture” of constantly shifting patterns of clouds and vapors supplants the nostalgia of landscape. A note at the end of the book tells us that it resulted partly from “an intense yet eccentric research in the rhetorical structure of English meteorological description.” BBC shipping forecasts, William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, William Cobbett’s Rural Rides, and the cloud sketches of John Constable were among Robertson’s sources, as was the delightfully titled Essay on the Modification of Clouds by the nineteenth-century amateur meteorologist Luke Howard.