6/1/2023 0 Comments My inventions autobiographer![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, I encounter page after page of this:Ī consistent, distinctive voice isn’t usually a problem. Is this poetry? Prose? Like other recent Carson productions, Red Doc>, the sequel to 1998’s verse novel Autobiography of Red, is a feast for first glances.īut when I resolve finally to turn away from surface pleasures and reckon with the words, I encounter nothing less than the voice of, well, Anne Carson! - learned, deadpan, comma-less, and frequently carried away by tangent. ![]() The first thing I notice, flipping through the new Anne Carson, is fancy lining: the Canadian poet and classicist has center-justified the bulk of the text, leaving it to the word processor (not for the first time a collaborator) to work out the spacing - and leaving a strip of aerated text down the middle of most pages. ![]()
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