Ha, I recommend it all the time, Stephen. In fact I read it as a kind
of long prose poems as much as an essay. It's so beautifully put
together.
Or as a kind of long, poetic-prose, Preface/Prolegomena to her later
translation of Sappho, If Not, Winter.
Doug
On 10-May-06, at 10:30 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> I just started reading Ann Carson's, Eros, The Bittersweet - a series
> of
> short essays where with both classical literature and philosophy (as
> well
> as Flaubert & Stendahl) she explores all sides - it seems - of this
> love/hate binary dance. It's fascinating and has lots of quotes from
> unfamiliar and familiar Roman and Greek writers:
>
> Eros loves strife and delights in paradoxical outcomes.
>
> (oops, lost the page and source!).
>
> I think I can recommend the book - particularly if you want to re-fuel
> the
> language of the dynamic we apparently inherit! In the mean time, go at
> it
> everybody!
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