Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carsonis a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 June 1950
CountryCanada
smart blindness very-smart
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
somewhere-else names greek
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
journey sometimes
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
voice female use
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
mind movement use
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough,
love-is fake distrust
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
life glitter earth
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
bread passionate lava
Lava bread makes you passionate.
sadness writing night
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
beauty running moving
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
population language hungry
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
liars lying mean
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
self effort desire
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ocean blessed night
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan