Decreation by Anne Carson

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Decreation by Anne Carson. 2005 Vintage Contemporaries, first paperback printing, 245 pages. Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist. According to a New York Times prof ile: " For two decades her work has moved — phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project — in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her awards (MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan) and accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world." Decreation is a hybrid (poems, plays, something else) work exploring the "undoing the creature in us." Condition: VG "In the ancient struggle of breath against death, one more sleep given." Show more