Decreation

Anne Carson is one of the great contemporary poets, a master whose oscillating creativity spans widely: from poetry to essay, from opera to ballet, she finds gestures to capture the present. Sappho, Simone Weil, Monica Vitti - Anne Carson has conversations with them: voices and ideas reach her across centuries and even just days. Her questions unsettle all certainties: the self, form, identity, gender. In exploring these questions, a delicate and resilient fabric of images, words, and thoughts emerges, which has captivated the admiration of readers and poets for decades: "uncompromising" (The New York Times).