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Other than her mother, Carson elegizes three historical women in the titular essay of the volume, “Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God.” The intense intellectual consideration of these women and their conceptions of decreation (what Weil articulates as the necessity “to undo the creature in us” and what the other women demonstrate is the expulsion of self in order to accommodate a deity) leads to a mediation on their merits and martyrdom in an opera of the same title, “Decreation...
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?...
Because tension abounds in the volume, one wonders whether her material sustains the pressure of presentation. An essay like “Every Exit is an Entrance” praises sleep and offers an unrelenting catalogue of literary evidence, but does it fatigue when forced to accommodate Keats, Kant, Aristotle, Bishop, Woolf, Homer, Stoppard, and Plato in the space of 22 pages and one lyric...
...internet last night. You got some great quotes there and the piece moved along nicely. I liked it. Good journalism! —Ken Chawkin, Media Relations, Maharishi University of Management Thank you for Henry Seton’s review of the recently distributed student essays on the curricular review (“Student Curricular Review Essays Stack Up Favorably to Profs,” 10/7/05). While I think Mr. Seton did an admirable job summarizing most works, he read my work too narrowly thus distorting my argument. He wrote, “I believe Gray and Wolf make...
...Shenk, also a Crimson editor, got this idea seven years ago when he saw a reference to Lincoln’s melancholy in a sociologist’s essay about suicide...