Description
A daring hybrid of poetry, essays, and opera, this work explores the mystical undoing of the self—the state Simone Weil called “decreation.” Moving across Sappho, Homer, Weil, Marguerite Porete, dreams, sanctity, love, suffering, and the ordinary textures of daily life, it brings ancient voices and modern consciousness into startling conversation. With intellectual rigor, lyrical intensity, and a keen dramatic sense, the author examines what it might mean to surrender ego without surrendering perception, creating a work that is as much an investigation as it is a celebration of transcendence.
Available Editions
ebook
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780307520272
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Decreation by Anne Carson.