as a refresher between stacks of journal articles, i finished Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red this weekend. Carson is a poet and professor at McGill university in Montreal, and one of my good friends had been on me to check her out. i noticed on the book jacket that Michael Ondaatje also sings praise: "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today. She is a rare talent - brilliant and full of wit, passionate and also deeply moving."
evidence:
I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided.
Things good on the inside. [p. 97]
Wrongness came like a lone finger
chopping through the room and he ducked. [p. 136]
i have her latest (i.e., Decreation) on hold at the library.
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