Decreation poetry, essays, opera
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, Telema...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Contemporaries,
2006.
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| Edition: | First Vintage Contemporaries edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. (Publisher). |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1400078903 9781400078905 |
| Author Notes: | Carson is perhaps besst know for Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which won the 1998 QSPELL Prize for Poetry. Carson recently won the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. Carson also won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for The Beauty of the Husband, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Carson is the author of seven books. (Bowker Author Biography) |
