Plainwater : Essays and Poetry

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Summary: Her Best
Review: The weirdo Canadian writer Anne Carson's best work is this hybrid baby Plainwater. It's form is perfect--the essay--and it suits her expanding mind wonderfully. I just wish she'd return to this form more often...

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Summary: i don't think so
Review: There are perhaps 30 good pages of writing in this book. 30. Out of 260. Anne Carson is one of the most over-rated writers to have snuck into the American scene in decades.

Rating:
Summary: Carson's Best
Review: This is Carson's best work, a meditation on loss and longing that outweighs her more popular works. Here in this early work you can find the foundations of form that inspired the young and daring prose stylists Ben Marcus, John D'Agata and David Wallace. Worth it on virtually every page.

Rating:
Summary: Carson's Best
Review: This is Carson's best work, a meditation on loss and longing that outweighs her more popular works. Here in this early work you can find the foundations of form that inspired the young and daring prose stylists Ben Marcus, John D'Agata and David Wallace. Worth it on virtually every page.

Rating:
Summary: the ancient world emerges
Review: wow. i first picked up this book last week and am blown away. the work of anne carson seems to be speaking from a world only newly unearthed...grainy and weird and wonderful!

Rating:
Summary: the ancient world emerges
Review: wow. i first picked up this book last week and am blown away. the work of anne carson seems to be speaking from a world only newly unearthed...grainy and weird and wonderful!