GLASS, IRONY AND GOD PB

Anne Carson s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her Short Talks are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking backwards; the brilliant long poem The Glass Essay deals with the end of a contemporary love affair, but is haunted by the Bronte sisters. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes with an intensity and an integrity that is transfiguring.