The more sighs shine the more I’m in trouble-some kind of silvery stuff-Įver since 1987, when she published the long poem “Kinds of Water” in Grand Street, Anne Carson has become one of the brightest fixtures on the world literary scene. What is that hush that carries itself up each sigh. Give me all your sighs for four or five dollars. People kissing stop to sigh then kiss again.ĭoctors sigh into wounds and the bloodstream is changed forever.įlowers sigh and two noon bees float backwards.īalthus sighs and lies about it, claiming it was Byron’s sigh. Shortwave sighs crackle in from the Atlantic. Listen to "Guillermo's Sigh Symphony" mp3 Rule Your Nature: Kant breathed only through his nose. Sensualism: Kant’s favorite dinner was codfish. Opinion of the day, should not number more than the Muses nor less than the Graces. Numbering: Kant never ate dinner alone, it exhausts the spirit. Pure Reason would have been written in language you could understand (in fact he Tolstoy: Tolstoy thought that if Kant had not smoked so much tobacco The Critique of
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Singing be done sotto voce and with windows closed. In summer loud choral singing of the inmates wafted in. The windows of his study faced the garden, on the other side of which was theĬity jail. Windows: Kant had one bedroom window, which he kept shut at all times, to forestall Listen to "Outwardly his Life Ran Smoothly " mp3Ĭomparative figures: 1784 Kant owned 550 books, Goethe 2300, Herder 7700. The clinic I had only one question What shall I do with my eyes? To this Corrado says nothing which is not I think the opposite of everything.ĭoesn’t seem right is what my husband would say, he says this about everything-Įspecially since I came out of the clinic, a clinic for people who want everything, everything I seeĮverything I taste everything I touch everyday even the ashtrays and at Valises I say if I had to go away I would take with me everything I see. What will you take? I ask Corrado who is leaving for Patagonia and when he says 2 or 3 “undaunted” (so Kant) on his freezing bed in its midnight glare. Mounted me and this made no difference except now I had to fight everything through Corrado, which I did Pain that throws itself back and forth in me when I lay on Corrado’s bed fighting withĮverything with Corrado watching from across the room then he came to the bed and Kant says “everything” exists only in our mind, attended by a motion of pleasure and
I keep my shop, in order that I may sell everything there, empty but I leave the light on.ĭo you know that in the deepest part of the sea everything goes transparent? asks my husband’s friendĬorrado and I say Do you know how afraid I am?Įverything requires attention, I never relax my neck even when kissing Corrado. The lakes where his factory has poisoned everything are as beautiful as Bruegel. My husband shrugs when I say so, my husband shrugs at everything.
Quail eggs eaten from the hand in fog make everything aphrodisiac. Listen to "Ode to the Sublime By Monica Vitti" mp3Įverything is a naked thought that strikes.Ī foghorn sounding through fog makes the fog seem to be everything. July 2005 THREE POEMS BY ANNE CARSON (forthcoming in her collection to be issued later this year, Decreation) To see this story in its original context, click here.
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