Decreation by Anne Carson

Decreation by Anne Carson

"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist

Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- 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.

"Cool, resolute, smart, and lovely.... Carson has emerged in the last two decades as a kind of prophet of the unknowable." --The Village Voice 

Anne Carson is a Montreal-based poet, essayist, and classics researcher. The Dalkey Archive has released her first work, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton). Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf), her most recent book, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.