"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."
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.
TIL that #AnneCarson has Icelandic citizenship. She was already my hero, now I'm just jealous.
"I want to say something but shame prevents me
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just"
-- "If Not, Winter", page 279
#13books that I think about often:
#OliverSacks Musicophilia
#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance
#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel
#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves
#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before
#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game
#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone
#NealStephenson Anathem
#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier
#CanXue Frontier
#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality
#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely
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Top book of 2024 watch - Dayspring by #AnthonyOliveira (April 2024)
"Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved—his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound. Sacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form...Seamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of #AnneCarson and #MadelineMiller ..."
#poetry #prose #AnneCarson #Plainwater
Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
I've somehow convinced myself that I need to (re)read at least the first 3 #AnneOfGreenGables books, a scholarly monograph on #Sappho, a new translation and commentary on my old thesis topic, and some collection of essays on #AnneCarson before I get proceed any further on #writing my potential book. Okay, fine, sure. Guess I'm doing this the hard way...
"Fragments of Sappho, by Anne Carson
105A as the sweetapple reddens on a high branch high on the highest branch and the apple pickers forgot--- no, not forgot: were unable to reach
105B like the hyacinth in the mountains that shepherd men with their feet trample down and in the ground the purple flower"
-- "If Not, Winter", page 215
I think I’m going to need to purposely read this book slowly. It’s so my jam, mixing meta comments about Greek/Latin grammar and crossing the barrier between fiction and nonfiction while being written very poetically. Sort of like a cross between #AnneCarson, #ReneeGladman, and a class on feminist art/literature. #bookstodon
Read this on my break today - H of H Playbook by Anne Carson. I love her work - perfect mix of poetry / mythology / scholarship / art and humour.
Checking over my CV and clicked on the link to my article for Culture Matters re #AnneCarson for the first time for ages. So glad to see it has been viewed more than 4000 times.
https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/3519-the-poor-core-of-the-world-wide-open-the-poetry-of-anne-carson
"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."
I have a copy of the Bakkhai translated by #AnneCarson, and would like to read more of her work. Does anyone have any #recommendations?
People are sharing favorite authors -- here are three of mine!
I haven’t written an #introduction yet cos What am I? Living on West Coast of Ireland, born in Manchester. I finished a #PhD on the Canadian poet #AnneCarson in 2021 (can’t get work in #Lit)) I’ve been a #poet for 15 years read #poetry all my life. I’m working class, got a BA in Ancient Greek and Philosophy . Those 3 things have coloured my life. I love #histodon #bookstodon #mastodaoine I follow where #IrishTravellers lead. In another life I want to be an #engineer. Please tell me stuff.
