Volume 52, Number 17 · November 3, 2005
The Spirit of Play
By Charles Simic
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
by Anne Carson
Knopf, 245 pp., $24.95
OTHER BOOKS BY ANNE CARSON DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glass, Irony and God
by Anne Carson
New Directions, 142 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson
Dalkey Archive, 190 pp.,$12.95 (paper)
Men in the Off Hours
by Anne Carson
Vintage, 168 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
Vintage, 150 pp.,$13.00 (paper)
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
Vintage, 148 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
by Anne Carson
Vintage, 260 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Decreation is Anne Carson's ninth collection of writings. It includes poems, essays, a screenplay, and an opera libretto. In the last twenty years, she has published two books of essays, one of translations, and five other books that are not easy to classify, since they contain not only poetry but a great variety of prose. While she is perfectly capable of composing a straightforward essay or a poem, montage is her preferred technique, allowing all her multiple talents as an essayist, a literary critic, a classical scholar, a translator, and a philologist to come into play. 'A fictional essay in 29 tangos' is how, for instance, she describes one of her book-length poems.
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