What’s Inside

   Looking Through Stone
   Poems about the Earth

   Celebrating geology, metals, minerals, and mining

   “surprises like the best dessert”
   —Hans Kloster, Lapidomanen

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A Unique Book
A Wider Audience
Table of Contents
And More

Four Poems

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A Unique Book—Proudly Canadian

Much past Canadian poetry described our people and landscape in lyrical terms. Combining research and wonder, Looking Through Stone burrows deeper—the first collection of poems in Canada devoted exclusively to geology and mining. Quite literally, it goes underground. From volcanoes to vitamins, the book presents a wealth of factual information. It also explores past, more fanciful notions about how rocks and minerals fit into our human picture. In its 107 pages, science and imagination meet.

• Part I introduces a little basic geology.
• Part II focuses on the seven metals of the ancients, linked to the planets and days of the week, plus platinum and uranium.
• Part III delves into myths and legends about the power of gemstones.
• Part IV looks at the history and technology of mining, and its social and economic impact.

The minerals included in Looking Through Stone are all to be found in Canada—a reminder of our country’s rich resources. First publication (ISBN 978-1-896350-22-6, 2007) was in mining country, Sudbury, Northern Ontario, by Your Scrivener Press.

A Wider Audience

In addition to traditional readers of poetry are many in the resource and mining community. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada is including Looking Through Stone in its Mining Matters educational program. Also, it is being used in conjunction with the Specialist High Skills Major in Mining curriculum, developed by the Sudbury, Northern Ontario, Rainbow District School Board. Teachers and students can download the free, 15-page PDF Glossary, offering simple definitions of the geological/mining terms and historical/mythological references in Looking Through Stone.

Table of Contents

PREFACE 7 A grand continuum . . . PROLOGUE 13 Why Part I - PETRA 15 Petra 16 Geologist 17 Exceptions 18 Thinking Big 19 Magnetometrist 20 Metamorphic 21 Igneous Rock 22 The Link 23 Haiku 24 Devitrify 25 Ash Flow Tuffs 26 Hammer Trail 27 Sedimentary Rock 28 Rock Sample 29 Almost Like Love 30 Pegmatites 31 Geode 32 Two Facets 33 Mineralogy Lesson 34 Even the Words 35 Illusion 36 He Sits

Part II – METALLICA 38 From the Beginning 40 The Metal of Heaven: Iron 43 The Lunar Metal: Silver 46 The Power Metal: Copper 48 The Noblest Metal: Gold 50 The Liquid Metal: Mercury 52 The Oldest Metal: Lead 54 The Vital Metal: Tin 56 The Hardest Metal: Platinum 58 The Radioactive Metal: Uranium Part III - GEM LURE 61 Oracle Stones 62 Gem Lure 64 Lithotherapy 66 Amethyst 67 Hematite 68 Garnet 70 Amber 72 Emerald 74 Moonstone 76 Aquamarine 77 Diamond 78 The Magic of Stones 80 Clay

Part IV - GOING UNDER 83 Prospector 86 The Bottom of the Sluice Box 87 Underground 89 Working the Mines    1. Artisanal Miner    2. Slaves    3. Shareholders    4. Free Miners    5. Technocrats    6. Engineers 96 Horror Stories    1. Iron Mountain    2. Cyanide    3. Holes    4. Silicosis    5. Prophecy 100 Reclaiming the Earth 102 Pest Control EPILOGUE 104 Petrologist ABOUT THE AUTHOR 107 Susan Ioannou

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Four Poems: “Why”, “Metamorphic”, “Aquamarine”, “Magnetometrist”

AuthorsAloud: Susan comments and reads “Geologist”, “The Link”, “Haiku”, “Amber”, and “Engineers”.

Response to the Book: What others think of Looking Through Stone

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Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth, eBook, by Susan Ioannou (Toronto: Wordwrights Canada, 2010), eISBN 978-0-920835-34-0, $7.99 (suggested retail price).

Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth, Paperback, by Susan Ioannou (Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 2007), 107 pages, ISBN 978-1-896350-22-6, $17.00—SOLD OUT

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