Name: Decreation
Rating: 4.458333333333333 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9780676978612

Anne Carson

In dazzling original poems, essays, screenplay, and libretto gathered here, the author draws on personal experience and the work of others to illuminate "decreation"--the state in which the self dissolves.

Poetry, Essays, Opera

Decreation

A remarkable compilation of literary writings by the critically acclaimed author of Autobiography of Red features an array of original poetry, essays, a screenplay, and a libretto that explores the nature and mechanics of the human act of decreation as revealed in the lives of Sappho, Marguerite Porete, Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf, and her own relationship with her mother. Reprint.

kite

“To yell is the rule here—rule of the mad—it disguises the kissing and makes us less sad.”

i will go insane

p.s. i have so many thoughts about this book and i cannot write them down. they’re convoluted in my head. a lot of good quotes, too. i will literally just start jumping around in my room.

Decreation Poetry, Essays, Opera

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