{"product_id":"anne-carson-elizabeth-sarah-coles-9780197813331","title":"Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist","description":"The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power. The first monographic study of her work to date, \u003cem\u003eAnne Carson: The Glass Essayist\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case for the acclaimed poet, classicist, and translator as a remarkable experimental scholar and reader, who rehearses scholarly methods while slipping their constraints of form and emotion. Carson's attention to sources -- ancient and modern, textual or visual -- is one of few constants across almost four decades of her published writing, whose uncertain claims on discipline and genre are claimed here as a certain interpretive style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book follows Carson's readings through variations in form -- from early academic prose and poems, essays to creative adaptations, and works for performance -- to come to grips with what Coles calls Carson's transparency: not her easiness or literalism, but a taste for the exposure of her presence, process, and intent. Carson's portraits of working perform to readers even where she fantasizes her own erasure; where chance, poetic economy, impersonation, and imitation ride the line of anonymity. Coles situates Carson in a vibrant contemporary conversation around the essay, scholar-poets, and post-critical form, where creation transacts critique, and where roles and prerogatives are reset. Reading Carson as a reader, the book argues, is the most pressing way of reading her \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Sarah Coles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019781333X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197813331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Elizabeth Sarah Coles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46807265476863,"sku":"9780197813331","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ff25c5e-b949-46a6-aa4f-6e9fd2cfb554.jpg?v=1745378980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anne-carson-elizabeth-sarah-coles-9780197813331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}