Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

I dare say that this is Carson at her most spiritual. I did not think very much of the real-life "operatic" performance (of which I saw small video clips) of sections of this book, as the words tend to express a different kind of life in my head than the one conveyed by the performers. From Sappho to Simone Weil, Carson makes these iconic women speak on the religious experience (or...more

I dare say that this is Carson at her most spiritual. I did not think very much of the real-life "operatic" performance (of which I saw small video clips) of sections of this book, as the words tend to express a different kind of life in my head than the one conveyed by the performers. From Sappho to Simone Weil, Carson makes these iconic women speak on the religious experience (or non-experience) of disappearing into the sublime and what this can mean for our understanding of God and the self.    hide