Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson
Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? This work reveals the two poets' striking commonalities.
"Erudite and entertaining, effortlessly able to play across a range of associations, the book traces a number of similarities in artistic approach between two writers who would seem, on the face of it, to have inhabited very different worlds.. Economy of the Unlost is a beguiling piece of work, both scholarly and persuasive."--Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of Books "This is one of those rewarding, original, rigorously attentive books that only Anne Carson could have written. At its core is an idea-the way the overlapping senses of 'economy' play out in language and in monetary history-that only this brilliant poet/classicist could have come up with. Economy of the Unlost is a strange book, bringing together as it does Simonides and Paul Celan; but its strangeness is one of its great virtues, for startling insights spring uncannily off every page."--Wendy Lesser, Editor, The Threepenny Review "[A] magnificent and lovely essay... I never wanted [the] book to end. .. ."--Stanley Corngold, Modernism/Modernity "[Carson] convincingly draws out the fraternity of tone and inclination in two poets far removed in time, experience, and language, a significant accomplishment. It is...difficult to do full justice to her book--rich, delicate, and complex... An act of grace."--Danielle Allen, Chicago Review
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics. She is the author of Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton) and Autobiography of Red; A Novel in Verse (Knopf).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691091754 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691091757 |
| Title | Economy of the Unlost |
| Author | Anne Carson |
| Series | Martin Classical Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2002-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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