![]() ![]() Indeed, the poems that follow each look at something (Homo Sapiens, Geisha, Gertrude Stein, Ovid in exile and Sylvia Plath) in order to understand how that person, place of thing has pushed by something else. Before that, words were not, Facts were, faces were.” She reminds us that “Aristotle tells us, everything that happens is pushed by something else”. As she writes, “Early one morning words were missing. In her poem “Introduction” Carson begins the book by immediately shifting the Teutonic plates beneath the reader’s feet by taking away the meaning of what we rely on for sense in a book: words. In these poems, Carson’s voice reaches in like a light in a velvety dark room," writes Dunkle. ![]() Iris Dunkle reviews the recently reissued Short Talks by Anne Carson, a "call back to the reader." "The book is made up of a series of lyric prose poems written in a voice that is both self-less and indirect at the same time A voice that it is deeply personal, yet remains hard to recognize. ![]()
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