Sub-Rosa is a reading group that meets once a month to discuss feminist and obscure literature.
Our selection for this month is Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson.
We will meet Saturday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the store.
This meeting coincides with a poetry reading on Saturday, February 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Book Beat with Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, Cameron McLeod Martin, Monica Rico and Stephanie Glazier. The following night, Sunday February 23, Book Suey in Hamtramck will be hosting a similiar reading with Carson and other local poets. More details coming soon!
If you are interested in attending please send us your email to bookbeatorders@gmail.com.
Books are in stock and discounted 15%.
Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: “The Glass Essay,” a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson’s reading of the Brontë sisters; “Book of Isaiah,” a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and “The Fall of Rome,” about her trip to “find” Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.
“In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry, [Carson] has been cutting a large swath, inciting both envy and admiration.”—Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
“Her books are like collages, a combination of memoir, poetry, dissertation and drama, held together each time by an overriding theme. The question of what formal category they fall into doesn’t interest her.”—Betsy Reed, The Guardian
Anne Carson (b. 1950) is a Canadian poet, classicist, essayist, and professor. She has won numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the Pushcart Prize, the Lannan Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
Carson was the Director of Graduate Studies in Classics at McGill University and taught at Princeton University from 1980–87. She has also taught classical languages and literature at Emory University, California College of the Arts, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. She currently teaches in New York University’s creative writing program.
Her other notable works include Eros the Bittersweet, The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, and many translations. She currently resides in Iceland.