Float
Subtitle: a collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various
By: Anne Carson ; case design by Cassandra J. Pappas
Contributors: Pappas, Cassandra J., designer
Series: [Poetry Book Society recommendation]
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781910702574
Subjects: Canadian poetry; Chapbooks
Description: "Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of brilliance and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format--individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case--this collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in spaces that are suggestively in-between. One can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling--a piece that also unearths poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a poem called "Wildly Constant" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast."--
Notes: Title from slipcase front cover.

"Reading can be freefall"--Note on front cover of slipcase.

22 chapbooks and 3 booklets in a plastic slipcase.

Pagination from amazon.com.

A Borzoi book.
Table of contents: title: By chance the cycladic people --; title: Candor --; title: Cassandra float can --; title: Contempts: a study of profit and nonprofit in Homer, Moravia and Godard --; title: The designated mourner by Wally Shawn, final production, NYC, June 2013 --; title: Eras of Yves Klein --; title: Good dog I, II, and III --; title: How to like "If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso" by Gertrude Stein --; title: L.A. --; title: Maintenance --; title: Merry Christmas from Hegel --; title: Nelligan: some poems translated from the French --; title: 108 (flotage) --; title: Performance notes --; title: Pinplay: a version of Euripides' Bacchae --; title: Possessive used as drink (me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets --; title: Powerless structures fig. 11 (Sanne) --; title: Pronoun envy --; title: Stacks --; title: Uncle falling: a pair of lyric lectures with shared chorus --; title: Variations on the right to remain silent --; title: Wildly constant --; title: Zeusbits.