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 varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 2006
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages: 245
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781400078905
ISBN 10: 1400078903