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The brilliant new collection from the prize-winning poet and renowned classicist A New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year A New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year 'She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism.' - Teju Cole, Observer Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further still- exploring myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with - and pushing - the limits of language and form. Within this beautifully designed box, there are twelve individual booklets that can be read in any order- conjuring a mix of voices, time periods and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories 'maddeningly attractive' when observed in liminal space. One can begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City, or atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about 'falling', and an investigation of monogamy and marriage as Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying and emotionally engaging book to date.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781910702574
eBay Product ID (ePID)225803858
Product Key Features
Book TitleFloat
AuthorAnne Carson
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2016
Number of Pages226 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height238mm
Item Width175mm
Item Weight752g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAnne Carson
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
