{"product_id":"carbon-14-ann-deagon-9780870231711","title":"Carbon 14","description":"Ann Deagon first began writing poetry \"vigorously\" in 1970, \"in some kind of forty-year-old renaissance.\" Since then her poems have been published widely and have been received numerous awards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When I came to forty\u003cbr\u003ethat three-headed dog love death and poetry\u003cbr\u003etook me in its teeth and shook me . . . \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarbon 14\u003c\/i\u003e is the result, a counterpoint of serious and ironic excavations into the mythic and the personal past of a middle-aged woman. Although these poems have grown from her lifelong involvement in the Classics and are basically classical in their structure and concentration, their strength is not academic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnn Deagon's poems interweave past and present, person, place, and event, with unexpected and often violent insights. In \"The Sybil's Bath,\" for example, the sacrifice of a young girls to a god leads to unprecedented counterviolence and to questions which are both contemporary and absolute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Deagon, \"All identity is in some sense a translation from the Greek: it cannot be defined except with hyphens. The meaning hovers precisely at the hyphen.\" in \u003ci\u003eCarbon 14\u003c\/i\u003e Deagon proclaims her identity as poet-woman, woman-teacher, teacher-poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Deagon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870231715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870231711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Ann Deagon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063444435199,"sku":"9780870231711","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5540a572-13f0-42d9-aeec-adaec711dbc7.jpg?v=1685389589","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carbon-14-ann-deagon-9780870231711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}