Economy of the Unlost
(Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose economies of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-09175-4
- EAN: 9780691091754
- Produktnummer: 19368386
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 156 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.8 cm 248 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 248
Über den Autor
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist and scholar of classics who lives in Montreal. Her first book, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton), has recently been reissued by The Dalkey Archive. Her most recent book, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf), was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
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