Short Talks
by Anne Carson
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Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is show more Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works. show lessTags
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There are some spectacular prose poems here, others too oblique for this reader, other still seemed both oblique and trite, which is a hard balance. Carson often accomplishes a great deal with very little and many of these left me breathless in 2 or 3 spare sentences. I will go with uneven yet often dazzling and perspective changing.
Gosto dos escritos poéticos da Anne Carson porque ela torna a poesia palpável, gente como a gente, simples, mas jamais simplório, é um tipo de autora que nos dá coragem em publicar.
Have not read much in here. What I saw, I liked. Bought this for a class.
me - love, adele - love
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Anne Carson was born December 16, 1950. Carson is a poet, an essayist, and a classicist. She is the director of the graduate program in Classics at McGill University, where she also teaches Latin and Greek. Carson is perhaps besst know for Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which won the 1998 QSPELL Prize for Poetry. Carson recently won the show more 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. Carson also won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for The Beauty of the Husband, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Carson is the author of seven books. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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