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Plainwater

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Author : Anne Carson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-03-18

Plainwater written by Anne Carson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-18 with Poetry categories.

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.

Short Talks

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Author : Anne Carson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Short Talks written by Anne Carson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Poetry categories.

Poetry. Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. New material includes a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and cover art and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, SHORT TALKS is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. SHORT TALKS can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works. The renowned ancient Greek scholar's first book beautifully reprinted on amazing paper, with an extra "short talk" on afterwords functioning as the afterword. Sometimes humorous, other times eerie, these prose-poems range in topic from waterproofing to Gertrude Stein at 9:30 at night--the most fascinating micro-lectures you'll ever attend. Nobody has not bought this book after opening it. --Open Books Indie Recommend

Anne Carson

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Author : Joshua Marie Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2015-01-28

Anne Carson written by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Literary Collections categories.

The first book of essays dedicated to the work of noted writer, Anne Carson

Economy Of The Unlost

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Author : Anne Carson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-11

Economy Of The Unlost written by Anne Carson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. Economy of the Unlost begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of fifth-century b.c. Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language. Carson goes on to consider various aspects of the two poets' techniques for coming to grips with the invisible through the visible world. A focus on the genre of the epitaph grants insights into the kinds of exchange the poets envision between the living and the dead. Assessing the impact on Simonidean composition of the material fact of inscription on stone, Carson suggests that a need for brevity influenced the exactitude and clarity of Simonides' style, and proposes a comparison with Celan's interest in the "negative design" of printmaking: both poets, though in different ways, employ a kind of negative image making, cutting away all that is superfluous. This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences--Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair--as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the virtuosic interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility.

The Hungry Brain

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Author : Stephan Guyenet
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-04-06

The Hungry Brain written by Stephan Guyenet and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Health & Fitness categories.

'ESSENTIAL' —The New York Times Have you ever wished you could just stop eating the cake, even as you put another forkful in your mouth? Have you ever wondered why exactly you are still eating chips when you are definitely full? This book has the answers. The Hungry Brain isn’t about denying yourself the food you love, or never eating pudding again, but the bottom line is that we often eat too much and don’t really know why; Guyenet will help the reader to understand exactly why – and more importantly, what to do about it. ‘Many people have influenced my thinking on human nutrition and metabolism, but Stephan is the one person who has completely altered my understanding of why we get fat.’ Robb Wolf, author of the New York Times bestseller The Paleo Solution 'For those interested in the complex science of overeating, it is essential' The New York Times

Decreation

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Author : Anne Carson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Decreation written by Anne Carson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Collections categories.

In this collection, 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 definitions?

From Cohen To Carson

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Author : Ian Rae
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2008-03-26

From Cohen To Carson written by Ian Rae and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rae argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposition - to create a mode of narrative that contrasts sharply with the descriptive conventions of realist and plot-driven novels.

Schizophrene

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Author : Bhanu Kapil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Schizophrene written by Bhanu Kapil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Poetry categories.

A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora

Seeking Happiness

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Author : Hsing Yun
language : en
Publisher: Buddha's Light Publishing
Release Date : 2008

Seeking Happiness written by Hsing Yun and has been published by Buddha's Light Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.