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sophiem14's review
3.0
3.5 second half was exponentially better than the first half. would’ve been 4 stars if not for the beginning that dragged. always impressed by anne’s writing, the swimming essays were impeccable.
trisjdavila's review
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
finished this while listening to the consistent flow of the cat’s water fountain. thinking about meditation and not hating it.
i love many parts of this. i think i loved the introductions to sections most of all, i love how anne writes about her father.
some of the spain parts aren’t as big of a success. some of it feels like white woman finds spain—wow spanish words!
i love its flow though. just like plainwater.
i love many parts of this. i think i loved the introductions to sections most of all, i love how anne writes about her father.
some of the spain parts aren’t as big of a success. some of it feels like white woman finds spain—wow spanish words!
i love its flow though. just like plainwater.
lsparrow's review
1.0
these poems felt much too heady, full of philosphy - I prefer viseral poetry that makes me feel
abbyandthejets's review
5.0
This is my favourite book, tied perhaps with Eros the Bittersweet, that Anne Carson has written or I have read. This novel has a frank honesty that encompasses everyday living, poetry, description, and philosophy. Her work on gender, relationships (between all people and things), history, and dependency is stunning. She understands the inner workings of the psyche, and pulls so many aspects of living and death and identity in a surprisingly digestible book (this is not a critique of her other works, which are equally fantastic, only that I was able to read this one far faster and far more times than her other works). I recommend it most highly.
relativefictions's review
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
the anthropology of water you will never ever ever leave my brain. the anthropology of water you made me feel seen in a way i wish you didn't. the anthropology of water you made me cry about a cat!!!!!!
lattelibrarian's review
5.0
As many of you probably know by now, I love Anne Carson!!! She's so innovative, fresh, breath-taking, and insightful. Her poems and essays are just so incredible and help me to see things in a new light. Plainwater takes some poetry and some essays in the form of diary entries, similes, and locations. It's just all so stunning, and she seems to do it flawlessly.
This is definitely a collection I need to reread five, ten years down the line to see how it resonates with me then, to see how much I've learned, how far I've come. Her writing is always complex, layered, and multi-faceted in ways that almost seem to require the reading of her writing over and over--not because her writing is complicated, but because it is just so deep and involved that there'll always be something new and fresh to come back to.
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This is definitely a collection I need to reread five, ten years down the line to see how it resonates with me then, to see how much I've learned, how far I've come. Her writing is always complex, layered, and multi-faceted in ways that almost seem to require the reading of her writing over and over--not because her writing is complicated, but because it is just so deep and involved that there'll always be something new and fresh to come back to.
Review cross-listed here!