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Plainwater
Anne Carson
其他書名
Essays and Poetry
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2015-03-18
主題
Poetry / Canadian
Poetry / Women Authors
Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN
1101911271
9781101911273
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nHneBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The poetry and prose collected in
Plainwater
are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions.
Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in
Plainwater
dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.