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Float / Anne Carson.
Author
Carson, Anne, 1950-
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Uniform title
Poems.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Description
272 unnumbered pages (in 27 pieces) ; 24 cm in slipcase 24 x 18 x 3 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3553.A7667 A6 2016
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Chapbooks
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Summary note
"Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of brilliance and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format--individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case--this collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in spaces that are suggestively in-between. One can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling--a piece that also unearths poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a poem called "Wildly Constant" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
"A collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various. Reading can be freefall."--Slip case.
In chapbook slipcase.
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Pagination from amazon.com.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
By chance the Cycladic people
Candor
Cassandra float can
Contempts: a study of profit and nonprofit in Homer, Moravia and Godard
The designated mourner by Wally Shawn, final production, NYC, June 2013
Eras of Yves Klein
Good dog I, II, and III
How to like "If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso" by Gertrude Stein
L.A.
Maintenance
Merry Christmas from Hegel
Nelligan: some poems translated from the French
108 (flotage)
Performance notes
Pinplay: a version of Euripides' Bacchae
Possessive used as drink (me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets
Powerless structures fig. 11 (Sanne)
Pronoun envy
Stacks
Uncle falling: a pair of lyric lectures with shared chorus
Variations on the right to remain silent
Wildly constant
Zeusbits.
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ISBN
9781101946848 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
1101946849 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015020999
OCLC
910622006
Other standard number
40026552982
99968888470
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