Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson

2 reviews

fatfrog's review

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs

courtneyfalling's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This was a reread, and like the first time, I love The Glass Essay. The strange melodrama, the fixation on Wuthering Heights and Emily Brontë's life, the horrifyingly immaculate scenes with the nudes: it's just really well-crafted. The middle poems are good, but not incredibly memorable. I did appreciate rereading "The Gender of Sound" and remembering some of the classical etymologies and histories I had forgotten. (The language around "cervix" is so fascinating?!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Dementia