Like Kells's interlacing lines
These poems are ‘granular things / that flow freely when touched’
I hope it spurs you on to read more of this extraordinary poet
in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss
Central to the poems' imagery is the presence of a bedstead that has survived a bombing raid
Red Doc> by Anne Carson John Gallas Like Kells's interlacing linesIn a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called G, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover Sad (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the