Read By: Miller Wolf Oberman

<p><em>Miller Wolf Oberman on his selection:</em></p> <p>I will not try to introduce Anne Carson here. If you are one of the several people who do not know the work of this poet, essayist, and classicist, I will just say I envy you your impending discovery. One of the great joys, for me, of her work is that I am never certain what I’ll find. A scholarly translation of an ancient Greek play? A collaborative reinvention of an ancient text into a graphic novel? A poetry collection? A combination of these things that pours out of a box in a literal accordion, connecting a single, brief lament in Latin to contemporary grief, because what is time? In Carson’s “The Life of Towns,” which comprises one section of her 1995 collection of poems and essays, <em>Plainwater</em>, each line is end stopped, disrupting the sentence as a unit entirely, and interrupting our desire to see a sentence as something whole.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/plainwater-essays-and-poetry/9780375708428"> <em>Plainwater</em> at Bookshop.org</a></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>