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to style your text. And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. on when I Create a commenting name to join the debate. One must have a mind of winter I love that she's a Catholic. In decreating we would, in our extinction of the self, find a metaphysical fullness, in tune with the universe. If you haven't read them try them out, especially those from her earlier collection, Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Lion and the Honeycomb, Jill Alexander Essbaum - Coeur Despondent, « Adventures in Chinese Cuisine - Day 2 (by Joe Kruzich), Adventures in Chinese Cuisine - Day 3 (by Joe Kruzich) », "Odd Man Out": the Belfast Noir [by David Lehman], Dispatch From A Distance - Roads And Seeds, A Trace [by Cara Benson], Met Percent: Week Twenty-Four [by Alec Bernstein]. To bring one’s emotions, thoughts, and historical framework to the wintry scene of the poem would corrupt the scene. I know what you mean. But the title betrays their final concern. This Window is a Thirst But Not a Good Drink. to your comment. says that "to be a writer is to construct a big, loud, shiny, center of self from which the writing is given voice"—in other words, the writer constructs precisely what the sublime wipes out. If we can follow the snaking crawl of language we can find an emptiness within it, where the bottom drops out of the self and there is only the sound of a pounding heart. This is only a preview. the sublime is called a "science of anxiety. A theme that courses through the poems in The Art of Darkness section of my book is the desire to decreate myself, to experience a “soft retreat of senses/And a slow dance to/Self and lessness.”  In “Prelude,” I write of my “discovery/And subsequent/Shedding of self.”  I expressed this sentiment in various poems in the early 80’s during a dark but prolific period of writing. "Decreation," she goes on to explain, "is an undoing of the creature in us - that creature enclosed in self and defined by self." Log in to update your newsletter preferences. A coldness unusual for the time. And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely— I'll make me a world. try again, the name must be unique, Please A place for many birds to fly. Most liked, -1) ? Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. To believe is to take up a position, to cry out. This is what makes some of the poems so personal, I think. In her book Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera Anne Carson states that “Getting the self out of the way allows one to lose one’s hold on meaning so as to open up other paths of significance.” (Carson, Anne. (the quote is taken from Weil's, celebrates Sappho for being able to record the beating of the heart—one's presence to oneself—by dreaming up its disappearance. Poems answer essays, essays respond to poems, songs are performed, as the book questions the way we know through language. But when I am in any place I disturb the silence of heaven by the beating of my heart." Independent Premium. Implicit in this admiration is a speculation that Carson might be doing the same thing. Day two God made the clear blue sky. My desire to “become real/And less, much less” calls to mind Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Snowman” which takes decreation and metaphysics to a lofty and mysterious height. In the exquisite "Lines", for example, she begins: "While talking to my mother I neaten things. Do you think we feel this way for the same reason we like knowing that Stevens worked for an insurance company and couldn't drive? What kind of documentation can we then expect? We can see where Carson's going by skipping ahead, to the essay from which the collection takes its title. Especially the ones in which her mother figures prominently. 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