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Decreation

By Anne Carson

Decreation Social Sciences

Decreation

By Anne Carson

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2006-10-10
Publication Date:
2006-10-10
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400078903
ISBN13:
9781400078905
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
254 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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