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Decreation : poetry, essays, opera
Author
Title
Decreation : poetry, essays, opera / Anne Carson.
ISBN
1400043492
9781400043491
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
Physical Description
xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 5930: Dust jacket. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany, November, 2005 Barnes & Noble, NYC. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary
"In her first collection in five years, 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 definition? Where else can we start?" "Anne Carson's Decreation starts with form - the undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, rapture. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe."--Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Stops
Sleepchains
Sunday
Lines
Our fortune
No port now
Would be her 50th wedding anniversary today
Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone
That strength
Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
Despite her pain, another day
Nothing for it
Her Beckett
Beckett's theory of tragedy
Beckett's theory of comedy
Every exit is an entrance (a praise of sleep)
Every exit is an entrance
Ode to sleep
Foam (essay with rhapsody): on the sublime in Longinus and Antonioni
The day Antonioni came to the asylum (rhapsody)
Sublimes
Longinus' dream of Antonioni
And reason remains undaunted
L' (ode to Monica Vitti)
Ode to the sublime by Monica Vitti
Mia Moglie (Longinus' red desert)
Outwardly his life ran smoothly
Kant's question about Monica Vitti
Stanzas, sexes, seductions
Spring break: swallow song
Guillermo's sigh symphony
Blended text
Swimming in circles in Copenhagen
Gnosticisms
Gnosticism I
Gnosticism II
Gnosticism III
Gnosticism IV
Gnosticism V
Gnosticism VI
Seated figure with red angle (1988) / Betty Goodwin
Lots of guns: an oratorio for five voices
Quad
H & A screenplay
Totality: the colour of eclipse
Decreation: how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God
Decreation: an opera in three parts
Part one: love's forgery
Part two: her mirror of simple souls
Part three: fight cherries
Longing, a documentary.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Essays.
Annotations (Provenance) - 21st century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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