Float / Anne Carson.

Author
Carson, Anne, 1950- [Browse]
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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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781101946848 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 1101946849 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015020999
    OCLC
    910622006
    Other standard number
    • 40026552982
    • 99968888470
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