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parmyc's review against another edition
2.0
"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
"Why all the fuss?" Asks one critic.
"She wanted liberty. Well didn't she have it?
A reasonably satisfactory homelife,
a most satisfactory dreamlife, why all this beating of wings?
What was this cage, invisible to us,
which she felt herself to be confined in?"
Well there are many ways of being held prisoner,
I am thinking as I stride over the moor."
"She said,
When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them?
Why keep watching? Why not
go away? I was amazed.
Go away where? I said.
This still seems to me a good question."
Unfortunately, I only liked The Glass Essay.
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
"Why all the fuss?" Asks one critic.
"She wanted liberty. Well didn't she have it?
A reasonably satisfactory homelife,
a most satisfactory dreamlife, why all this beating of wings?
What was this cage, invisible to us,
which she felt herself to be confined in?"
Well there are many ways of being held prisoner,
I am thinking as I stride over the moor."
"She said,
When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them?
Why keep watching? Why not
go away? I was amazed.
Go away where? I said.
This still seems to me a good question."
Unfortunately, I only liked The Glass Essay.
fluentinsilence's review against another edition
5.0
aantekeningen:
1. ‘the glass essay’; las het nu voor de derde keer en weer dacht ik: dit is 't beste dat ik ooit heb gelezen. misschien niet waar, maar wel op het moment dat ik het lees. dus wellicht wél waar.
2. ik zal niet doen alsof ik begrijp wat anne carson allemaal zegt en ziet en denkt. ik weet niet of ik dat ooit zal kunnen, of iemand anders dan carson dat ooit zal kunnen. ik weet niet of dat wel de bedoeling is, van poëzie, van carsons poëzie. (dat is waarom het zo interessant is.)
3. uit de introductie van guy davenport:
4. het essay ‘the gender of sound’ is fantastisch.
(http://winterlief.blogspot.nl/2016/02/whacher-of-emily-bronte.html)
1. ‘the glass essay’; las het nu voor de derde keer en weer dacht ik: dit is 't beste dat ik ooit heb gelezen. misschien niet waar, maar wel op het moment dat ik het lees. dus wellicht wél waar.
2. ik zal niet doen alsof ik begrijp wat anne carson allemaal zegt en ziet en denkt. ik weet niet of ik dat ooit zal kunnen, of iemand anders dan carson dat ooit zal kunnen. ik weet niet of dat wel de bedoeling is, van poëzie, van carsons poëzie. (dat is waarom het zo interessant is.)
3. uit de introductie van guy davenport:
She writes philosophy and critical essays that are as beautiful and charming as good poetry; it is not surprising that her poems are philosophical—in the old sense, when (..) poetry was a way to write philosophy.
4. het essay ‘the gender of sound’ is fantastisch.
(http://winterlief.blogspot.nl/2016/02/whacher-of-emily-bronte.html)
partingbirds's review against another edition
4.0
yet another one of those books that i Will Have To Come Back To someday when i'm smarter/know more stuff. but, i read each piece & and got more out of them than i think i expected.
"the glass essay" has got to be one of the best things i've read all year. i also really enjoyed "book of isaiah" and "the gender of sound." very glad i spent time with this book.
"the glass essay" has got to be one of the best things i've read all year. i also really enjoyed "book of isaiah" and "the gender of sound." very glad i spent time with this book.
dipanjali's review against another edition
5.0
- third re-read finished -
this book is killing me. such beauty in the middle of all this noise. the glass essay makes me weep every single time i read it. it hits chords that i honestly wasn't even aware i possessed.
"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
always, this.
this book is killing me. such beauty in the middle of all this noise. the glass essay makes me weep every single time i read it. it hits chords that i honestly wasn't even aware i possessed.
"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
always, this.
vanityclear's review against another edition
5.0
Anne Carson isn't just a god: she's my god.
However: I prefer her on Greek and Roman texts, rather than Biblical ones, perhaps because that's where my own expertise tends. My favorites, easily, from this collection are "The Glass Essay" and "The Gender of Sound." I enjoyed "The Fall of Rome" but not nearly as much as the former two, and felt I barely cracked the rest—especially "TV Men," which read as extremely opaque to me, which is not usually how I read Anne Carson.
However: I prefer her on Greek and Roman texts, rather than Biblical ones, perhaps because that's where my own expertise tends. My favorites, easily, from this collection are "The Glass Essay" and "The Gender of Sound." I enjoyed "The Fall of Rome" but not nearly as much as the former two, and felt I barely cracked the rest—especially "TV Men," which read as extremely opaque to me, which is not usually how I read Anne Carson.