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Decreation : poetry, essays, opera / Anne Carson

By:

Carson, Anne, , 1950-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House , 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 245 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781400043491

DDC classification:

818.54 CAR

LOC classification:

PS3553.A7667 D43 2005

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. Copyright ® 2011 R.R. Bowker LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	818.54 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		057235

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

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. Copyright ® 2011 R.R. Bowker LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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