n 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, list, montage. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe.
By turns exhilarating and bewildering, lucid and hermetic, Anne Carson is a maverick with a thrilling range of skills. As Charles Simic says, 'Carson takes risks, subverts literary conventions, and plays havoc with our expectations. She is a wonder: an unconventional, often difficult poet who has a huge following among today's readers of poetry and whose work has been honoured with our most prestigious literary awards.'
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Jonathan Cape (Random)
ISBN: 9780224079266
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/07/2006
Año de edición: 2006
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Anne Carson
Nació en Toronto (Canadá) en 1950. Su tesis doctoral sobre Safo se publicó en 1986 con el título de Eros the Bittersweet. En la actualidad enseña clásicas en la Universidad de Michigan, en Ann Arbor.
Ha publicado varios volúmenes misceláneos de poemas y ensayos, entre ellos Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995), Glass, Irony and God (1995), Men in the Off Hours (2000), The Beauty of the Husband (2000, Premio T. S. Eliot de poesía) y Decreation (2005); así como una novela en verso, Autobiography of Red (1998), el ensayo Economy of the Unlost (2002) y un volumen con sus versiones de la poesía de Safo, If Not, Winter (2002). Además, ha sido dos veces finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award. En español se han publicado La belleza del marido (un ensayo narrativo en 29 tangos) (2003, trad. Ana Becciu) y Hombres en sus horas libres (2007, trad. Jordi Doce).