Anne Carson. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 ...

Anne Carson. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

The first thing I read by means of Anne Carson blew me away. It was "The Glass Essay" (in Glass, Irony and the supreme goodness 1995), a thirty-eight-page piece of poetry narrated by a woman devastated by the agency of the collapse of a be fond of affair. The woman tries to understand her despair, and to imagine a livable reply to it, by contemplating the mysteriously heroic loneliness of Emily Bronte The metrical composition combines intelligence and passion in a rare way; it's a combination you on a sudden realize you're terribly of keen appetite for. The effect calls to mind one great mid-length poems -