Glass, irony, and God
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Directions Book,
[1995]
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| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
808. |
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| Review: | "Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks," "essays," or "verse narratives"--Combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 142 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0811213021 9780811213028 |
| 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) |
