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A review by lattelibrarian
Plainwater by Anne Carson
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!