![]() ![]() With titles such as "The Glass Essay," "The Truth About God," "TV Men," and "The Fall of Rome: A Traveller's Guide," Carson sets out the audacious breadth, themes, and obsessions of her book, meanings and musics captured and propelled by an equally audacious sense and use of forms. And she throws in a closing essay, "The Gender of Sound," for good measure. ![]() ![]() It's as if other poets of the time have largely been fiddling around with lyric and narrative, expressionist and constructivist modes, while Carson sweeps by with the entire kit and caboodle. Glass, Irony, and God, one of the most important events so far in the poetry of the 1990's.Ĭarson's verse is Modernism at its old-fashioned, newfangled best: a use of montage that is slicing, dramatic, antic, learned, wise, wicked, and surprising a use of fractured narrative which tells the story while also telling the consciousness and sensibility and a use of elliptical, simultaneous musics rendered in precise, memorable phrasings. ![]() Again taking up the battle cry of his essential mentor, Ezra Pound, Laughlin has most recently made literature new by publishing Canadian poet Anne Carson's Poet and editor James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions, is still acquiring poetry that is importantly new, poetry that still sets and extends new directions. ![]()
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