PLAINWATER: ESSAYS AND POETRY (VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES)

Book ID/图书代码： 09784519C00003

English Summary/英文概要： The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions.

Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.

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Awards/获奖情况："Breathtaking. . . . A work of gorgeous innovation and a staunch hypnotic intelligence."--The Village Voice

"Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ’Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed." --The New York Review of Books

"Anne Carson is a philosopher of heartbreak." --The Nation

About the Author/作者介绍： Anne Carson is a Professor of Classics as well as an innovative and well-regarded poet: Autobiography of Red draws on both in a highly original "novel in verse". But this is by no means a straightforward narrative poem--rather it is a formally inventive and diverse investigation into the nature of story, its inheritance from the past and its transformations of inherited materials. The foreword gives a brief account of the work of the Greek poet Stesichorus, of whose twenty-six books only a few fragments have survived. Stesichorus was a poetic innovator--he disrupted the stable descriptive traditions of oral Homeric poetry and, perhaps equally importantly, reinterpreted epic themes through the medium of lyric verse. It is this which gives the clue to Anne Carson’s own reinventions, for concepts of the fragment, innovative language and formal revisioning are key elements of this long and ambitious book.

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