Plainwater
Anne Carson's mixed volume of essays and poetry, from Vintage, gathering five separate pieces.
The book brings together five pieces: Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings, a dialogue with a poet of the seventh century BC; Short Talks, one-minute lectures on subjects from trout to Parmenides; Canicula di Anna, about a phenomenology conference in Perugia; The Life of Towns; and The Anthropology of Water, a travelogue. Barrera lists it among five books she will never part with.
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Jazmina Barrera
Article · December 2023
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