Anne Carson. Economy of the Unlost ...
Anne Carson. Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keo with Paul Celan). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pres 1999 This is a work about nothing: about the numbers of vanishing points, epitaphs, and absences, about parents taken away on Nazis one Friday night when they wouldn't hide with their son chiefly importantly, Economy of the Unlost is a moving meditation onward poetry as coin thrown in succession the pyre--praise-words for the gone that pay back mortality immortal. "Die Atemmiinze" or "breathcoin," Paul Celan's word for neologisms, makes the missed unlost. ...
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