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jessblocker's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
katiebartmess's review against another edition
3.0
"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold on to all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
Striking. Phenomenal.
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold on to all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?"
Striking. Phenomenal.
mattlombardi's review against another edition
5.0
I savor every word from anne carson’s mind like a beggar in the desert savors every drop of rain. she is a lifegiver.
kstephens22's review against another edition
4.0
I feel I am turning into Emily Bronte
my lonely life around me like a moor
Okay, said Isaiah, so I save the nation. What do you do?
God exhaled roughly.
I save the fire, said God.
Thus their contract continued.
“I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self control, another kind of human self than one based on disassociation of inside and outside.”
my lonely life around me like a moor
Okay, said Isaiah, so I save the nation. What do you do?
God exhaled roughly.
I save the fire, said God.
Thus their contract continued.
“I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self control, another kind of human self than one based on disassociation of inside and outside.”
petrauusimaa's review against another edition
3.0
Some parts of this beautiful collection of poetry will haunt me forever. (I'll forget some parts of it, too, that's why the low rating.)
elisegodfryd's review against another edition
4.0
Five billion stars for "The Glass Essay"... three and a half for everything else
ru_th's review against another edition
4.0
The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.
Short Talks; On Walking Backwards
ianridewood's review against another edition
4.0
The Glass Essay and The Fall of Rome are my faves (plus, of course, the more traditional prose essay The Gender of Sound). Pair with Fleur Jaeggy's "These Possible Lives" for extra Victorian flavour.