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Anne Carson (also something for Emily Bronte fans)

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ThisIsMyTast · 09/10/2026 11:36

So happy that Anne Carson has won the Nobel. When Louise Gluck won I thought maybe it wouldn't happen.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/the-glass-essay

One of my favourite poems.

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champignonhill · Yesterday 00:34

Over the moon!

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · Yesterday 15:47

The tutor in my Saturday class is an Anne Carson fan and introduced us to this one

Short Talk on Pain
Lawns and fields and hills and wide old velvet sleeves, green things. They stretch, fold, roll away, unfurl and calm the eye. Look lush in paintings.
Battles are fought on greens. Or you could spread a meal and sup. How secretly they lie, floors of distant forests. Next comes the grave, in many a
poem about green. But this is not a poem. This is a billboard for frozen green peas. Frozen green peas are good for pain.

I'm now looking for more of her work.

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