"Even when they had Washington dance in the red-hot shoes, I wasn’t imagining analogies, Snow White, I was soaked into Washington’s dread, it had no edge.
That is what boredom is, the moment with no edge."
"Even when they had Washington dance in the red-hot shoes, I wasn’t imagining analogies, Snow White, I was soaked into Washington’s dread, it had no edge.
That is what boredom is, the moment with no edge."
a frenzy of water
The Bittersweet
Vasiliki Albedo
#Poetry #VasilikiAlbedo #BadLilies #Bittersweet #AnaisNin #AnneCarson #Eros #Skiathos #Aegean #Greece
I just saw a picture of Anne Carson and my day is turning out to be pretty slow, so if someone needs a random Anne Carson quote, reply to this and I'll send them one, randomly picked from one of the Anne Carson books on my bookshelf.
New review in LARB
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
reviewed by Rowland Bagnall
"... all but ends with “Todtnauberg,” a sequence of collaged texts and images, hand-drawn by Carson, meditating on a meeting between the philosopher Martin #Heidegger and Holocaust-surviving Jewish poet Paul #Celan."
#AnneCarson
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/avoid-having-a-self-on-anne-carsons-wrong-norma/
Video of lecture
Hesitation
by Anne Carson
#AnneCarson #Anaximander #Rilke #Heidegger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9dNpWq9e1Q
Doing the #bookstodon 7 books to know me thing:
#LucyMaudMontgomery, Anne of Green Gables
#AnneCarson / #Sappho, If Not, Winter
#MarciaDouglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
#HermannHesse, Glass Bead Game
#ItaloCalvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
#RodrigoFresán, The Invented/Dreamed/Remembered Part trilogy
#JennyHval, Girls Against God
"In the last week of June 2018, I got unexpectedly dumped. During the month that followed, I did the only thing that felt right: I read #AnneCarson’s long #poem “The Glass Essay” every day."
Lessons in how to rock an author photo. #JoanDidion #AnneCarson #ToniMorrison #CarsonMcCullers
People are sharing favorite authors -- here are three of mine!