Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson

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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

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"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist

Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.

"Cool, resolute, smart, and lovely.... Carson has emerged in the last two decades as a kind of prophet of the unknowable." --The Village Voice
Book Details
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9781400078905
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Authors:
Anne Carson
Published Date:
2006-10-10
Language:
English
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About Anne Carson

A poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario, and has taught at McGill University and the University of Michigan, among others. Her verse novel Autobiography of Red (Knopf, 1998) and Nox (New Directions, 2010) are among her best-known books. She won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband (2001), two Griffin Poetry Prizes, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. She has also held a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award, and has translated Sappho, Euripides, and Sophocles.

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