Short Talks: Brick Books Classics 1

by Anne Carson

Overview

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material.

On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst.

First issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works.

The youth at night would have himself driven around the scream. It lay in the middle of the city gazing back at him with its heat and rosepools of flesh. Terrific lava shone on his soul. He would ride and stare. — "Short Talk on the Youth at Night"

Praise for Short Talks: "Short Talks is a unique form of slag-like poetic address that arises from the full formative force of Carson's young embodiment of a northern Ontario mining-town winter of mind." — Margaret Christakos, from the Introduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771313421
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	01/15/2015
Pages:	75
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. A former MacArthur Fellow, awards for her numerous books include the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Red Doc was recently awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the inaugural Folio Prize.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Glass, Slag: Short Talk on Anne Carson's Hewn Flows Margaret Christakos 11

Short Talks

Introduction 23

Short Talk on Homo sapiens 27

Short Talk on Hopes 28

Short Talk on Chromo-luminarism 29

Short Talk on Geisha 30

Short Talk on Gertrude Stein About 9:30 p.m. 31

Short Talk on His Draughtsmanship 32

Short Talk on Housing 33

Short Talk on Disappointments in Music 34

Short Talk on Where to Travel 35

Short Talk on Why Some People Find Trains Exciting 36

Short Talk on Trout 37

Short Talk on Ovid 38

Short Talk on Autism 39

Short Talk on Parmenides 40

Short Talk on Defloration 41

Short Talk on Major and Minor 42

Short Talk on the Rules of Perspective 43

Short Talk on Le Bonheur d'Être Bien Aimée 44

Short Talk on Brigitte Bardot 45

Short Talk on Rectification 46

Short Talk on Van Gogh 47

Short Talk on Sleep Stones 48

Short Talk on Walking Backwards 49

Short Talk on Waterproofing 50

Short Talk on the Mona Lisa 51

Short Talk on the End 52

Short Talk on Sylvia Plath 53

Short Talk on Reading 54

Short Talk on Rain 55

Short Talk on Vicuñas 56

Short Talk on the Total Collection 57

Short Talk on Charlotte 58

Short Talk on Sunday Dinner with Father 59

Short Talk on the Youth at Night 60

Short Talk on The Anatomy Lesson Of Dr. Deyman 61

Short Talk on Orchids 62

Short Talk on Penal Servitude 63

Short Talk on the Truth to Be Had from Dreams 64

Short Talk on Hölderlin's World Night Wound 65

Short Talk on the Sensation of Aeroplane Takeoff 66

Short Talk on My Task 67

Short Talk on Hedonism 68

Short Talk on the King and His Courage 69

Short Talk on Shelter 70

Short Talk on Who You Are 71

Afterword: Short Talk on Afterwords 75

Biographical Notes 77