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Driven by the loss of her mother in 1997 and her brother in 2000, Carson??s book is in the tradition of Robert Lowell’s “Life Studies” (1959). But where elegies on his parents, grandparents, and literary friends took an all-too-personal tone in Lowell’s pivotal volume, Carson is less confessional...
Only the first section of introductory poems refers to the death of Carson??s mother directly, and even those are mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson??s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
Actually performed once in 2001 at the Culture Project in New York City, the opera is less a literary experiment than a testament to the profundity of Carson??s work. Dark, deep, and clear, the opera and the essay both manipulate their dramatis personae into the same act of destabilization that Carson observes in the characters of Virginia Woolf: “the narrative voice shifts from ‘we’ to ‘one’ to ‘you’ to ‘they?...
...picnic basket. Broadway Market or Cardullo’s always carry yummy picnic supplies. Fly-by is always another option, but don’t expect a second date. If Harvard Yard tourists kill the mood, Boston Common or the beaches are always a good bet (try Carson??s). The added perk: when conversation goes dead, you can always people watch...