Milk: Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of quotations about milk. US-born, UK-based musician, songwriter, graphic artist, writer, teacher and broadcaster Peter Blegvad has been gathering them about milk for more than 50 years, drawn to its opacity and fluid density as a portent of meaning and mystery.
Milk: Through a Glass Darkly gathers these quotations into a mosaic, or literary collage, consisting of almost three hundred and fifty separate passages that consider ‘light, smell, writing, mothers, fathers, colour, nothingness, regression, gender, race, food, cattle, ectoplasm, anti-matter, the moon, sex and insanity amongst other things’.