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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New York :
Vintage Contemporaries,
2006.
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| Edition: | First Vintage Contemporaries edition. |
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| 250 | |a First Vintage Contemporaries edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Vintage Contemporaries, |c 2006. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 245 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 353 | |a bibliography |b bibliography | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Stops. Sleepchains ; Sunday ; Lines ; Our fortune ; No port now ; Would be her 50th wedding anniversary today ; Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone ; That strength ; Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long ; Despite her pain, another day ; Nothing for it ; Her Beckett ; Beckett's theory of tragedy ; Beckett's theory of comedy -- Every exit is an entrance (a praise of sleep). Every exit is an entrance ; Ode to sleep -- Foam (essay with rhapsody): on the sublime in Longinus and Antonioni. The day Antonioni came to the asylum (rhapsody) -- Sublimes. Longinus' dream of Antonioni ; And reason remains undaunted ; L' (ode to Monica Vitti) ; Ode to the sublime by Monica Vitti ; Mia Moglie (Longinus' red desert) ; Outwardly his life ran smoothly ; Kant's question about Monica Vitti ; Stanzas, sexes, seductions ; Spring break: swallow song ; Guillermo's sigh symphony ; Blended text ; Swimming in circles in Copenhagen -- Gnosticisms. Gnosticism I ; Gnosticism II ; Gnosticism III ; Gnosticism IV ; Gnosticism V ; Gnosticism VI -- Seated figure with red angle (1988) / Betty Goodwin -- Lots of guns: an oratorio for five voices -- Quad -- H & A screenplay -- Totality: the colour of eclipse -- Decreation: how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God -- Decreation: an opera in three parts. Part one: love's forgery ; Part two: her mirror of simple souls ; Part three: fight cherries -- Longing, a documentary. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a 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). | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references | ||
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