#wonderwater

[antigonick]

Foucault talks about a flash of lightning that harrows the night, a violence that leaps at its own core. You kiss my eye. You cross me. Here is the speechless place. Beget what we are.

—Anne Carson, Wonderwater

[metamorphesque]

— Anne Carson, Wonderwater

[woundgallery]

Anne Carson from Wonderwater

[jerilynnportraits]

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[antigonick]

Love validates life, these people believe. Did I ever believe this? Do you?

Anne Carson, “I Can’t See The Arctic Circle From Here”, in Answer Scars, as part of Roni Horn’s Wonderwater / Alice Offshore

[antigonick]

It sometimes strikes me, when I am in the swimming pool watching the great mute alternating agon of arms and bathing caps, how each person's swimming stroke has the style of that person. The way a hand flips down into water each time a swimmer performs, say, a stroke of front crawl gives you essential information about them — about the angle at which their soul is turned and how they use, are used by, life. Everything else that person does – cook dinner, kiss, write, sweep the floor, go mad – will contain the same little flip. There is something both vast and pitiful about this fact.

Anne Carson, “Water, Still”, in Answer Scars, as part of Roni Horn’s Wonderwater / Alice Offshore

[antigonick]

Sappho’s escape, after the interpretation offered by Pliny the Elder of her importance to neoPythagoreans of the Roman era, shows her about to step off a cliff while below, waist-deep in the sea, with his cloack outspread on the water to receive her, stands Phaon, the beloved whose embrace will liberate from earthly bonds. Something about the cloak, dark purple, so tenderly floating, assuages my pain each time I descend.

Anne Carson, “I Can’t See The Arctic Circle From Here”, in Answer Scars, as part of Roni Horn’s Wonderwater / Alice Offshore

[antigonick]

–some way to scrape his mind into the veins of poems–

Anne Carson, “Being Purple”, in Answer Scars, as part of Roni Horn’s Wonderwater / Alice Offshore