What’s Inside

Original Paperback Sold Out and Out of Print

Retitled Edition A BiblioBoard IndieOntario Selection

   Poems Celebrating
   Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining
   For the Love of Rocks

   by Susan Ioannou, "The Mining Poet"


   “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

AuthorsAloud Audio

Response to the Book

Publishing Details

A Unique Book—Proudly Canadian

Much past Canadian poetry described our people and landscape in lyrical terms. Combining research and wonder, Looking Through Stone / Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining 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 the book 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 / Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining 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.

Contents

PREFACE A grand continuum . . . PROLOGUE Why Part I - PETRA Petra Geologist Exceptions Thinking Big Magnetometrist Metamorphic Igneous Rock The Link Haiku Devitrify Ash Flow Tuffs Hammer Trail Sedimentary Rock Rock Sample Almost Like Love Pegmatites Geode Two Facets Mineralogy Lesson Even the Words Illusion He Sits

Part II – METALLICA From the Beginning The Metal of Heaven: Iron The Lunar Metal: Silver The Power Metal: Copper The Noblest Metal: Gold The Liquid Metal: Mercury The Oldest Metal: Lead The Vital Metal: Tin The Hardest Metal: Platinum The Radioactive Metal: Uranium Part III - GEM LURE Oracle Stones Gem Lure Lithotherapy Amethyst Hematite Garnet Amber Emerald Moonstone Aquamarine Diamond The Magic of Stones Clay

Part IV - GOING UNDER Prospector The Bottom of the Sluice Box Underground Working the Mines    1. Artisanal Miner    2. Slaves    3. Shareholders    4. Free Miners    5. Technocrats    6. Engineers Horror Stories    1. Iron Mountain    2. Cyanide    3. Holes    4. Silicosis    5. Prophecy Reclaiming the Earth Pest Control EPILOGUE Petrologist GLOSSARY

And More

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 / Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining

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Publishing Details

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

First eBook Edition, Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth
(Wordwrights Canada, 2010), eISBN 978-0-920835-34-0.

Retitled Paperback Edition, with glossary, Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining: For the Love of Rocks
144 pages (Wordwrights Canada, 2017), ISBN 978-0-920835-52-4.

Retitled eBook Edition, with glossary, Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining: For the Love of Rocks
(Wordwrights Canada, 2017), eISBN 978-0-920835-51-7.