Name: Short Talks
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9781771313421

Anne Carson

"Riddle-poems that consist only of answers. Two-time Griffin Award winner Carson's first poetry collection."-- publisher's website.

Short Talks

madina

One day someone noticed there were stars but no words, why? I've asked a lot of people, I think it is a good question. Three old women were bending in the fields. What use is it to question us? they said. Well it shortly became clear that they knew everything there is to know about the snowy fields and the blue-green shoots and the plant called "audacity," which poets mistake for violets. I began to copy out everything that was said. The marks construct an instant of nature gradually, without the boredom of a story. I emphasize this. I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

4.25. presented in foreword findings!!! you can see the proto form of carson's writing style here and i've always loved her use of (run-on) sentence length and rhythm. favorites are: Short Talk on 

4.25. presented in foreword findings!!! you can see the proto form of carson's writing style here and i've always loved her use of (run-on) sentence length and rhythm. favorites are: Short Talk on the Total Collection, The Youth at Night (oh ari & anto), On My Task.

Poetry. In Anne Carson's SHORT TALKS the reader is bombarded with short prose poems that resound with the fullness of meditations on life: lyric sermons, riddle-poems that consist only of answers, Lou Reed meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen, the pure hilarious ache of ontology. SHORT TALKS, the first book-length collection by this accomplished, original voice, is elegiac, perceptive, and droll. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again. "The voice is laconic and composed but its images come off these pages resonant (more than resonant, shaking) with their own newness" -Don Coles.

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