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[proximoception]

Poets House
10 River Terrace
New York, NY

Thursday, April 29, 7:00pm
Nox: From Box to Book with Anne Carson & Currie

With artistic collaborator Currie, poet Anne Carson discusses and reads from Nox, her illustrated "book in a box" that elegizes the loss of her brother with photos, collages, sketches and poetry written through the lens of her translation of Catullus.

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

I missed her at Emory because I had no idea. I will miss this for some other reason. Most of her best work is about her personal life--but nearly as great are her semi-translations. Somebody else go for me.

Been meaning to reread her. There's alphabetical warrant.

She's also doing "Cassandra Floatcan" and "Bracko" on April 24th in Boston.

Comments

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

She is my favorite living poet. Her Autobiography of Red floored me and I've enjoyed her classics work, too. I saw her read at 92Y last year and saw her Oresteia at CSC. Thanks for posting about this. I fear I may be out of town, but I'll try to make it.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

For me she's the only living poet. I guess there's something in Ashbery, but it's hard to distinguish from placebo.

[whatever-being.livejournal.com]

i love anne carson to bits. i've seen her twice (both times also with currie), and both times have been incredibly disappointing. i think this probably has more to do with how much i love her work than the actual events themselves. i don't know, i'm not really sure any more what the point is of seeing an author whose work has meant a lot to you. you can never square the person with the work, it seems. and yet each time i see something like this, i think again, oh!

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm better off then.