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Short Talks Paperback – January 1, 1992

by Anne Carson (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
Poetry. In Anne Carson's SHORT TALKS the reader is bombarded with short prose poems that resound with the fullness of meditations on life: lyric sermons, riddle-poems that consist only of answers, Lou Reed meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen, the pure hilarious ache of ontology. SHORT TALKS, the first book-length collection by this accomplished, original voice, is elegiac, perceptive, and droll. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again. "The voice is laconic and composed but its images come off these pages resonant (more than resonant, shaking) with their own newness" -Don Coles.
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  1. Print length
    57 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Brick Books
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1992
  5. Dimensions
    4.25 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0919626580
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0919626584
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Anne Carson (June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions of her books simply states Anne Carson lives in Canada.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brick Books; F First Paperback Edition Used (January 1, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 57 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0919626580
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0919626584
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
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Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur “Genius” Award.

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  • T. Porges
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great, but available elsewhere.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2007
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    This wonderful book is also in print as a section of Carson's _Plainwater_collection, which is much more broadly available. If you're nuts about her work, you might want to have it anyway. And you should at least want it, because she's great, as much as the word "great' has meaning. She has Ann Sexton's confessional toolkit, balanced by a scholarship that Sexton never had. Her essay ideas are always fascinating. Her translations are rich and spare at the same time. She's great.
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  • Kristine Burnett
    4.0 out of 5 stars quick poems and prose light read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2017
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    snippets of poems and prose, nice exercise
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  • minette greswell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2015
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    wonderful book. arrived promptly
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    Reviewed in Spain on December 19, 2022
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    Toralmente unisex, aunque no lo sepa la gente .... y el pie no resbala.
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