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Io is a golden-eyed, white-haired, much-beloved musk-ox of Anne Carson’s protagonist, G, in her 2013 verse-novel Red Doc>.How to unpack such a sentence? Try.If you had a slightly vertiginous, confusing, yet ultimately not unsatisfactory experience figuring out three compound adjectives and two compound nouns, as well as, that Anne Carson is a poet, G is the name of (presumably) a person, Io is the name of a musk-ox, and that an angle bracket at the end of a book title is not an impossible concep...
An incredible book but one that does not stand on its own. Carson's light-touch erudition is completely at play but this does not prevent some of Red Doc>'s chief pleasures coming from a reader's knowledge of Autobiography of Red. Even given that, the later volume is simply not as peerlessly successful as AoR (what could be?). My reservations/joys with Red Doc> were more than ably captured by Parul Sehgal in her Bookforum review.
benightedly i gave this 4 stars i'm sorry/you are/yes/why did you give it 4 stars/i wanted it to be like AofR/ poetry is never the same/as i'm learning mostly from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from the book itself/some of these poems are surreal/they are/you don't like surreal/i like surreal but it doesn't quite talk to me the language seems gimmicky to me without/ i've heard this before/wisdom i guess/poetry's curse/insight quotability a light/we fumble in the dark/there's a glac...
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Absence and Silence: "red doc>" by Anne Carson(Original Review, April 10th 2013)Look at the Pulitzer Prize. For whatever reason, it's highly regarded in America and it chooses novels (among all other kinds of works in its many categories) that are clearly literary, accessible to almost anyone, but infused with a seriousness and thoughtfulness that enriches the experience beyond the lighter pleasures of an airport thriller.
"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."Two weeks ago I shifted over two times zones to move my mother out of the hospital and my parents out of their home into an "assisted care facility". I had been asking them to make that move themselves so that I wouldn't need to be the one to push them out of their home and tell them what they were leaving behind. They left me firmly on that hook. I arrived back home to find 'red doc>' awaiting me. Anne Carson can resolve everything.So Gery...
To feel anythingderanges you. To be seenfeeling anything strips younaked.Dr. Anne Carson, original "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known."I did not enjoy red doc> as much as its predecessor, Autobiography of Red, but these sorts of modernisations of myth are absolutely Carson's wheelhouse. "To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing," she says, a statement which is, more or less, the thesis of both books. You could take the
1. What the hell is going on2. But I love itMy two reactions ^ to almost all Anne Carson poetry. I will always love her, even if I do not always understand her.
In one of her formalist asides, Anne Carson writes, "prose is a house poetry a man in flames running quite fast through it" - a striking image, but neither half really describes the writing of "Red Doc>." If I elaborated on that analogy to find a place for Carson, I might describe her as the one who wanders through the darkened house, lighting her way with a series of matches she discards without making sure they have gone completely out.The book foregrounds its severe structural choices: Thin v...
Red Doc> is a kind of sequel to Autobiography of Red, both by poet Anne Carson. Autobiography is a reimagining of the story of Geryon, the red-winged boy and his dog. Red Doc> tells the story of G. and the various encounters with others in a time that is both now and not quite now. What follows is more my initial impressions of this wonderful text rather than a review. I do not feel qualified to give a review to Anne Carson but I am so overwhelmed by her talent in general and this text in partic...
This is a sequel to Carson's verse novel Autobiography of Red, the story of the adolescent Geryon, the red monster slain in myth by Herakles. Both it and Red Doc> are based, I understand, on The Geryoneis of Stesichorus, the ancient Greek poet. Again the myth is given a modern setting. Here Geryon has grown up. I like the poetry very much, not surprising for a Carson admirer. Here is the same elegant phrasing, biting observation, and breathtaking image I associate with her. However, as a continu...
I am constantly thinking of this one quote which in itself refers to Proust:"WITH RED PENCIL Ghad underlined the sentence where Proustobserves the momentarilyimpaired surface of theeye of a person who hasjust had a thought she willnot tell you. It traces afissure in the pupil and disappears back down itsown involuntary depths.Watch the wake."
