Float

Synopsis

Anne Carson Consistently Dazzles With Her Inventive, Shape-shifting Work And The Vividness Of Her Imagination. Float Reaches An Even Greater Level Of Brilliance And Surprise. Presented In An Arrestingly Original Format--individual Chapbooks That Can Be Read In Any Order, And That Float Inside A Transparent Case--this Collection Conjures A Mix Of Voices, Time Periods, And Structures To Explore What Makes People, Memories, And Stories Maddeningly Attractive When Observed In Spaces That Are Suggestively In-between. One Can Begin With Carson Contemplating Proust On A Frozen Icelandic Plain, Or On The Art-saturated Streets Of Downtown New York City. Or Journey To The Peak Of Mount Olympus, Where Zeus Ponders His Own Afterlife. Or Find A Chorus Of Gertrude Steins Performing An Essay About Falling--a Piece That Also Unearths Poignant Memories Of Carson's Own Father And Great-uncle In Rural Canada. And A Poem Called Wildly Constant Piercingly Explores The Highs And Lows Of Marriage And Monogamy, Distilled In A Wife's Waking Up Her Husband From The Darkness Of Night, And Asking Him To Make Them Eggs For Breakfast.-- By Chance The Cycladic People -- Candor -- Cassandra Float Can -- Contempts: A Study Of Profit And Nonprofit In Homer, Moravia And Godard -- The Designated Mourner By Wally Shawn, Final Production, Nyc, June 2013 -- Eras Of Yves Klein -- Good Dog I, Ii And Iii -- How To Like If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso By Gertrude Stein -- L.a. -- Maintenance -- Merry Christmas From Hegel -- Nelligan: Some Poems Translated From The French -- 108 (flotage) -- Performance Notes -- Pinplay: A Version Of Euripides' Bacchae -- Possessive Used As Drink (me): A Lecture On Pronouns In The Form Of 15 Sonnets -- Powerless Structures Fig. Ii (sanne) -- Pronoun Envy -- Stacks -- Uncle Falling: A Pair Of Lyric Lectures With Shared Chorus -- Variations On The Right To Remain Silent -- Wildly Constant -- Zeusbits. Anne Carson. Set Includes 27 Pieces (22 Chapbooks + 1 Title Book + 1 Contents Card + 1 Performance Notes + 2 Divider Cards Housed In A Plastic Slipcase).