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bonnieg's review
4.0
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.
toadsdrool's review
4.0
I go back and forth on old Anne, losing a one sided argument she’ll never know began. Fighting the good fight, I pick up my pen (or more literally, tap my fingers) and admit defeat. As once again, she has inspired me to write something.
ncarbide's review
5.0
"Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff" invariably makes me cry. Invariably.
Somehow I think this is a good thing.
Somehow I think this is a good thing.
alexandrapadilla's review
"I emphasize this. I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is a task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participle oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough "
Cerrar el año con este libro se siente como una caricia al alma <3
Cerrar el año con este libro se siente como una caricia al alma <3
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
2.0
Read this while having trouble sleeping. Anne Carson is a favourite of a co-worker but I don't think she'll be a favourite of mine.
loveoluwa's review
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
3.75
Interesting, in its vagueness. I was moved throughout, but not in a way that was fulfilling, never to completion. It could be fodder for something experimental, interpretative, in thought or in writing but I don’t find myself particularly drawn to this book, unless in passing.