Anne Carson

Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks", "essays", or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay", a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah", a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome", about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.

Glass, Irony, and God

Emiley Jones

Well there are many ways of being held prisoner,

The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April

Something inside it reminds me of childhood—

it is the light of the stalled time after lunch

and mothers stand at the kitchen sink pondering

Goblins, devils and death stream behind me.

It is stunning, it is a moment like no other, 

when one's lover comes in and says I do not love you anymore.

XI of “The Fall of Rome: A Traveler’s Guide”

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stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind,

Soul is what I kept watch on all that night.

We lay on top of the covers as if it weren't really a night of sleep and

caressing and singing to one another in our made-up language

That was a night that centred Heaven and Hell,

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