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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
