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Simone weil, the twentiethcentury french philosopher, mystic, and activist, defined decreation as a program for getting the self out of the way while making something new. How women like sappho, marguerite porete, and simone weil tell god. You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. 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. This paper examines the relationship between critical reading and the critical object in the work of the contemporary canadian poet and essayist anne carson, principally the texts that emerge from. She was a 1998 guggenheim fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a macarthur fellowship. Sep 23, 2006 anne carson s new collection, decreation, challenges the boundaries of poetic form, says fiona sampson fiona sampson. The inscrutable brilliance of anne carson the new york times. Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Anne carson was born in toronto, ontario on june 21, 1950. Carson lived in montreal for several years and taught at mcgill university, the university of michigan, and at princeton university from 19801987. Decreation and the ethical bind is a study in decreative ethics in which selfdispossession conditions responsiveness to a demand to preserve the other from. Anne carson and i first met in 1988 at a writers workshop in canada, and have been reading each others work ever since. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. Anne carsons decreation 2006 interrogates both the reality of the real and the possibilities for expressing glimpsed, sublime metarealities. Poet anne carson reads from decreation canadian poet anne carson reads from the poem seated figure with red angle 1988 by betty goodwin from decreation. In the summer of 2001, home for a visit from university, i took anne carsons men in the off hours and the beauty of the husband on a family fishing trip to lake diefenbaker. Ecstatic lyre is the first book of essays dedicated to the breadth of anne carsons works, individually, spanning from eros the bittersweet through red doc. As sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment eros enters you. Anne carson born june 21, 1950 is a canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of classics. Her awards and honors include the lannan award, the pushcart prize, the griffin trust award for excellence in poetry, and fellowships from the guggenheim. Oct 10, 2006 anne carsons decreation starts with formthe undoing of form.
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