{"product_id":"plainwater-essays-and-poetry-by-anne-carson","title":"Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAstonishingly beautiful poems and essays that stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed.”—The New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today.” Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67869552869657,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1882\/8385\/files\/61ovVPOcrLL._SL1500.jpg?v=1792559396","url":"https:\/\/otherbooksla.com\/products\/plainwater-essays-and-poetry-by-anne-carson","provider":"other books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}