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Reality is a sound
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. (Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse) Brilliant! Tagged: Anne Carson, poetry, reality, spirituality
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Distance
And another Anne Carson gem, again from Autobiography of Red. Distance, she says, … extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. Tagged: Anne Carson, distance, poetry
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Enter Herakles
Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence. Thus opens the next chapter in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, which is entitled ‘Change’. First though, still a twelve-year old, Geryon meets Herakles:...
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The roof
A wonderful description of life in Lima: Ancash’s mother had the roof divided into living, sleeping and horticultural areas. Beside the water tank was where guests slept. Next to that was ‘Ancash’s...
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Aftershocks can go on for years
The inevitable happens …. Geryon meets Herakles again, with predictable consequences: The effort it took to pull himself away from Herakles’ eyes could have been measured on the scale devised by...
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No one without
There is no person without a world. Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Tagged: Anne Carson, random thoughts
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Under the seams runs the pain
eryon struggles on in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, grieving for the devastating loss of a lover. But we also learn about other aspects of his life. Like Carson herself (there are strong...
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