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Author / Creator:	Carson, Anne, 1950- author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2016
Description:	272 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm, case 24 x 18 x 3 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Canadian poetry -- 21st century. Chapbooks. Canadian poetry. Chapbooks. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10888288

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ISBN:	9781101946848 1101946849 9781101946855
Notes:	"A collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various." In chapbook slipcase. Pagination from amazon.com.
Summary:	"Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of brilliance and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format--individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case--this collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in spaces that are suggestively in-between. One can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling--a piece that also unearths poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a poem called "Wildly Constant" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast."--

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Call Number:	PS3553.A7667 A6 2016
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