Tag: anne carson

As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another—whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional or imaginary. Contact is crisis. As the anthropologists say, “Every touch is a modified blow.”

Anne Carson, from Men in the Off Hours; “Dirt and Desire: Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity” (via toeska)
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Louise Gluck | The Wild Iris

John La Farge, The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River, 1985-1910, watercolour

John Galliano F/W 1987-88

Anne Carson | “The Albertine Workout”

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Alice Notley | Negativity’s Kiss 

Alice Notley | Doctor Williams’ Heiresses  

Nobuyoshi Araki, From Bondage series (1980 – 1989)

Ghérasim Luca | Self-Shadowing Prey

Jennifer Chang

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“But the ruse of the triangle is not a trivial mental maneuver. We
see in it the radical constitution of desire. For, where eros is lack,
its activation calls for three structural components—lover, beloved
and that which comes between them. They are three points
of transformation on a circuit of possible relationship, electrified
by desire so that they touch not touching. Conjoined they are
held apart.”

God’s Christ theory

God had no emotions but wished temporarily
to move in man’s mind
as if He did: Christ.

Not passion but compassion.
Com- means ‘with.’
What kind of witness would that be?

Translate it.
I have a friend named Jesus
from Mexico.

His father and grandfather are called Jesus too.
They account me a fool with my questions about salvation.
They say they are saving to move to Los Angeles.

—Anne Carson