Fire craft: art, body, and world among glassblowers

Introduction : arriving at New York glass

The glassy state : setting the pot of man and world

Embodied knowledge : the ebbs and flows of skill acquisition

Fire and sweat: calorific bodies and teamwork

Blow : time, space, and the vessel

Quintessential craft : cupmaking and the turns of métis

Materia erotica : love and strife in the hotshop

Conclusion : heart of glass.