[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Glass Poetry

Tony Patti gaffer at glassblower.info
Fri Nov 11 21:50:27 EST 2016


Most on this email list already know of the magical qualities of glass.

 

This "glass poetry" web page was a Google alert for me today:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/11/poster-poems-glass-p
oetry-share-your-verse

 

"Both fragile and strong, a mirror and a container - glass shares many
properties with good poetry."

 

I was surprised that there is a glassblowing poem which dates back to the
third century!

This fragmentary poem was written in Greek on a papyrus scroll found in
Egypt.  From the Toleado Museum of Art.

http://www.toledomuseum.org/kiosk/ancient-asian-european-glass/ancient-glass
/ancient-glass-in-the-study-gallery/ancient-greek-poem-on-glassblowing/ 

 


First he heated the very point of the blowpipe, then snatched from nearby a
chunk of bright glass and placed it skillfully within the hollow furnace.
And the crystal as it tasted the heat of the fire was softened by the
strokes of Hephaistos like.He blew in from his mouth a quick breath.like a
man essaying the most delightful art of the flute. The glass received the
force of his breath and became swollen out around itself like a sphere
before it. It would receive another onslaught of the divine breath, for
often, swinging it like an ox-herd his crook he would breathe into.

 

Hephaestus is the Greek God of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors,
metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus 

 

Enjoy,


Tony Patti
  
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