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A review by stephanielam27
Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
3.0
I love reading Carson in one sitting: it’s like a spiritual revelation (“The Truth About God” had some fetching imagery; I read “TV Men: Artaud” in one breath). Littered with anachronisms that were at times witty and at times forced. Wasn’t a big fan of the bookended essays or “The Fall of Rome” unfortunately- veered more academic than poetic.
“eyes stacked with the motions of roses in that other dawn and a torn coolness-“ (67)
“stuffing her shadow into her mouth as she goes” (105)
“The doubling and interchangeability of mouth engenders a creature in whom sex is cancelled out by sound and sound is cancelled out by sex...Baubo’s mouths appropriate each other.” (136, from “The Gender of Sound”)
“eyes stacked with the motions of roses in that other dawn and a torn coolness-“ (67)
“stuffing her shadow into her mouth as she goes” (105)
“The doubling and interchangeability of mouth engenders a creature in whom sex is cancelled out by sound and sound is cancelled out by sex...Baubo’s mouths appropriate each other.” (136, from “The Gender of Sound”)