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Decreation : poetry, essays, opera / Anne Carson.
| Author/creator | Carson, Anne, 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005. |
| Description | xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents | Stops -- Sleepchains -- Sunday -- Lines -- Our fortune -- No port now -- Would be her 50th wedding anniversary today -- Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone -- That strength -- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long -- Despite her pain, another day -- Nothing for it -- Her Beckett -- Beckett's theory of tragedy -- Beckett's theory of comedy -- Every exit is an entrance (a praise of sleep) -- Every exit is an entrance -- Ode to sleep -- Foam (essay with rhapsody): on the sublime in Longinus and Antonioni -- The day Antonioni came to the asylum (rhapsody) -- Sublimes -- Longinus' dream of Antonioni -- And reason remains undaunted -- L' (ode to Monica Vitti) -- Ode to the sublime by Monica Vitti -- Mia Moglie (Longinus' red desert) -- Outwardly his life ran smoothly -- Kant's question about Monica Vitti -- Stanzas, sexes, seductions -- Spring break: swallow song -- Guillermo's sigh symphony -- Blended text -- Swimming in circles in Copenhagen -- Gnosticisms -- Gnosticism I -- Gnosticism II -- Gnosticism III -- Gnosticism IV -- Gnosticism V -- Gnosticism VI -- Seated figure with red angle (1988) / Betty Goodwin -- Lots of guns: an oratorio for five voices -- Quad -- H & A screenplay -- Totality: the colour of eclipse -- Decreation: how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God -- Decreation: an opera in three parts -- Part one: love's forgery -- Part two: her mirror of simple souls -- Part three: fight cherries -- Longing, a documentary. |
| General note | "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2004063367 |
| ISBN | 1400043492 (alk. paper) |