Description
Blending poetry, prose, translation, criticism, and imaginative dialogue, this genre-defying collection moves freely between the ancient world and the present day. It features a playful interview with a seventh-century B.C. poet, meditations on subjects ranging from orchids to Ovid, and luminous travel writing shaped by love, separation, and family memory. Across these varied forms, the book explores desire, loss, transformation, and the strange distances between people, texts, and time. Intellectually daring and emotionally resonant, it showcases a distinctive style in which classical scholarship and modern experience illuminate one another.
Available Editions
paperback
A.A. Knopf
Published Jan 1, 1995
260 pages
ISBN: 0679431780
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Details
First Published
1995
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Plainwater by Anne Carson.