DECREATION: Poetry, Essays, Opera
by Carson, Anne
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1400043492
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043491
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Synopsis
In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates "decreation"--an activity described by Simone Weil as "undoing the creature in us"--an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?Anne Carson's Decreation starts with form--the undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, rapture. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47510
- Title
- DECREATION: Poetry, Essays, Opera
- Author
- Carson, Anne
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400043492
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043491
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Poetry,Woman Author,Canadian,21st century
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