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    <body><![CDATA[My first encounter with Carson--completely life-changing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At last I've finished wading through Plainwater. It's good, it's Carson, but it's not my favorite Carson--mostly prose and mostly lots of it, a good chunk Carson on male-female love, which I just don't think is her strongest subject. <br/><br/>---<br/>This book has been on my &quot;currently read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10615898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Carson is the Arachne of contemporary poets.  A professor of classics and comparative literature at Michigan, Carson has an eight-legged brain that comfortably weaves sixth-century Greek lyric poetry, Renaissance painting, ancient Chinese wisdom literature, Kafka, and the confusion of her (writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25534656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic and Capital. In the sense that it's the one that I read first. It's also the one I taught my students and the one they came to me to see about and the write like and the one that we were all reading when my cat died. That passage about Anna. And also the one with the blood oranges. What a co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15953717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Carson is one of my favorite poets, and the &quot;Short Talks&quot; in this book are some of her smartest poems.  Craig and I had an interesting conversation the other day about the way a kind of &quot;ecriture feminine&quot; is employed in contemporary poetry to enable poets to be intimate wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1652826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[every time i thought i was over it, i wasn't.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i had to read &quot;autobiography of red&quot; and &quot;beauty of the husband&quot; to get to trust her enough to go through these shorter, sharper pieces, but this is my favorite anne carson so far.  by &quot;trust her,&quot; i mean understand that she's lying most of the time, but it's fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9851632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is fantastic stuff. i will admit that I still like autobiography of red better, but that's like talking about Angel having sex with Buffy but not, so close, but not quite experiencing perfect bliss and turning back into a mean vampire. that is to say autobiography of red is a once in a lifetime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32598636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Carson's work is a form of mental gymnastics for me. She requires close reading and an open mind that does not demand a clear narrative. That said, her work is a meditation on time, loss, bonds, intimacy, love, selfhood. I read her to expand the way I look at and engage with the world.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book while traveling across america by train for three weeks. it was so appropriate to read about the pilgrim, look out the window, and see the scenery flash by. it contextualized everything, and made the text so alive.  <br/><br/>this is a great book to bring when traveling! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first found &quot;Kinds of Water&quot;, included in this collection, several years before the book appeared and I read it again and again for a decade. It might be the single biggest influence on my writing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the poetry and prose in this book -- so much that I am taking the time to reread. The first time was a more rushed setting as it was a required book for a class at NYU.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life of Towns went around my poetry class enough that I can still hear some of it in my head.  It's pretty great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved part V of this book...the anthropology of water...a tale of walking across northern spain...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, poetry. I don't have the brain for it, sadly, but I can respect Anne Carson's fluid work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another one of the once-a-years, along with rushdie, kundera, and dillard...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a close second to Autobiography of Red.  A denser read, but utterly beautiful.]]></body>
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