false <![CDATA[Decreation]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172212092m/150249.jpg 150249 4 Simone Weil described &#8220;decreation&#8221; as &#8220;undoing the creature in us&#8221;&#8211;an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing. 1208475 2005 Decreation total:256|5:99|4:100|3:50|2:7|1:0| 256 1059 414 36 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 09:22:19 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 09:48:36 -0700 2008 However, how succesful this book is depends explicitly on which section you're reading at the time. It's a segmented creature, with each se...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 11 19:29:30 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 15 13:46:40 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 11 19:29:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 08 14:43:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 14:44:29 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jan 08 13:49:54 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 17:57:45 -0800 2008 She's my photographer god--someone whose work is painterly and composed but still needs to be "read" like a text.

And after that I ignored the friend I was visiting and read most of Anne Carson's Decreation in one sitting. I've go...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 14 11:49:33 -0700 2007 Thu May 01 06:17:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 17:25:12 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 17:26:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 25 18:54:33 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 28 07:24:38 -0700 2009
Finished! I must say that my only real criticism of this book is the highly personal experience of finding it very hard to fit into my life. This didn’t work well as subway reading. It is just too dense and meaty. I guess I could also say that reading this b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 10:15:30 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 10:17:08 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 07:21:23 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 19:57:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 20:03:45 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 20:04:47 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 09:11:32 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:32:08 -0700 2009 However, near the middle she lost me. You couldn't pick and choose as y...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 21 15:26:51 -0800 2007 Tue May 13 18:57:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 11 19:54:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 19:54:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Dec 26 08:18:09 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 10:47:26 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Mar 15 19:21:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 13:03:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon May 11 12:21:24 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 12:21:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 29 17:18:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 11:20:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 13:37:36 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 13:39:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 22 12:03:16 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 31 17:44:39 -0800 2009
Bits really get me at times, but not as many as in “Autobiography of Red” or “Plainwater.”

Something Steinian about the oversimplified vocabulary and repe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jul 28 07:13:20 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 08 15:30:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=150249