{"product_id":"carson-anne-float","title":"Carson, Anne: Float","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, loose leaf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 25, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float kaleidoscopically illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of expectations and boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying, emotionally engaging book to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679366918167,"sku":"9781101946848","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_24397fda-10da-4505-a83b-6fd744e4dbaa.jpg?v=1697662688","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/carson-anne-float","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}