Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Great Regulars: Meaning arises in the interaction

between verso and recto, in the often subtle links between various scraps of adjacent material. As the once apparently disjointed parts start to find a context, the reader's initial bewilderment slowly but surely diminishes. [Anne] Carson may seem to meander and be deliberately oblique at times, but she is only telling it slant. Patience is required and rewarded.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: A Box of Grieving

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