Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera Valentine Seasonal please visit the author's website

please visit the author's website

during the depths of the Great Depression

Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred

and growing up queer in the '90s

He reads its dark signs everywhere: in his bedridden mother’s wilting plants

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera Valentine Seasonal please visit the author's website"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." The Economist Simone Weil described decreation as undoing the creature in us an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as