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intense,urgent,new kind of poetry.”  \nCover painting:“Volcano Talk,”by Anne Carson(detail);design by Semadar Megged  \nA NEW DIRECTIONSPAPERBOOK ORIGINALNDP808  \n$14.00 USA$19.99 CANADA  \nGlass,Irony and God  \nIntroduction by GUY DAVENPORT  \nAnne Carson's poetry—characterized by various reviewers as \"short talks,\"\"essays,\"or “verse narratives”—combines the confessional and the critical ina voice all her own.Known as a remarkable classicist,Anne Carson in Gilass,Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stun-ning style.This collection includes:“The Glass Essay,”a powerful pocmabout the end of a love affair,told in the context of Carson's reading of theBronte sisters;\"Book of Isaiah,\"a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel ofancient Judaism;and “The Fall of Rome,”about her trip to “find”Romeand her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.  \nAnne Carson,a 2000 MacArthur Fellow,is a professor of classics at McGillUniversity.She is author of the highly praised Eros the Bittersweet,Plainva-ter,Autobiography of Red,and Men in the Off Hours.  \n“She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anythingshe wrote.If there's a magazine that has something of hers in it,I buy itautomatically.”—Susan Sontag  \n“Here,from the muse of paradox,from Eros the Bittersweet,are poems thatshuttle and veer between Hebraism and Hellenism,serendipity and the fll-blown sequence,the wry and the wondrous,autobiography and the story ofrace.”—Robert Fagles  \n“Fusing confession,narrative and classicism,Carson's poetry witnesses thecollision of heart and mind with breathtaking vitality.”—Publishers Wekly  \n—BooHist  \nwww.ndpublishing.com  \nrony  \nand  \nod  \nFor  \nmy  \nm other  \nand  \nfather  \nn n eCa rs on  \nGlass,  \nIron y  \nan d  \nod  \nIntrodu ction by GUY DAVENPORT  \nCopyright ◎1992,1994,1995 by Anne CarsonCopyright 1995 by Guy Davenport  \nAll rights reserved.Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper,magazine,radio,or television review,no part of this book may be reproduced in any form orby any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and recording,orby any information storage and retrieval system,without permission in writingfrom the Publisher.  \nAcknowledgments:Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors and publishersof magazines in which some of the poems in this book first appeared:AmericanPoctry Repiew,New Feminist Research,Raritan,and Thamyris.  \nA modified version of \"The Fall of Rome\"appeared in The Descant Anthology(McClelland &Stewart,Toronto,1995).  \nManufactured in the United States of America.New Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper.First published as New Directions Paperbook 808 in 1995.Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCarson,Anne,1950-  \nGlass,irony,and God /Anne Carson:introduction by GuyDavenport.  \np.cm.  \nISBN 0-8112-1302-1 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