Plainwater
Subtitle: essays and poetry
By: Anne Carson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Other titles: Plain water
Description: Plainwater brings together five selections from Anne Carson's growing body of highly praised work.

Included are Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings, a present-day dialogue with a poet of the seventh century BC; Short Talks, one-minute lectures on topics as diverse as trout and Parmenides; Canicula di Anna, a chronicle of a phenomenology conference conducted in Perugia, Italy; The Life of Towns, verbal photographs that capture the essence of the nearly extinct "town"; and The Anthropology of Water, a travelogue of three moments in the journey of a woman's life.