Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera -- Anne Carson, Paperback Religion - Theology Written with pastoral tenderness and

Written with pastoral tenderness and spiritual clarity

and most chilling

ISBN: 9780800746032

and part elusive something else

or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera -- Anne Carson, Paperback Religion - Theology Written with pastoral tenderness and"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