– Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry.
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Ghost Q & A
by Anne Carson
Q do you know you’re a ghost
Q how do you know you’re a ghost
A it’s the sliding
Q is it like sleep
A like scything
Q do you feel old or young
A space and time are wrong
Q do you eat, is there food
A the sliding affects my nerves
Q what about up and down
A just vectors
Q do you have language
A aren’t I talking to you
Q I mean grammar
A the verb
Q that is a contradiction
A no it isn’t
Q just testing
A have I had this dream before
Q yet you’re also awake
A I contradict myself all the time
Q do you see people can you see me
A if you close your eyes
Q what about moods
A the edges are freezing
Q is that good
A yes
Q is it crowded
A are you joking
Q are there ghosts in this room
A most of the objects here are ghosts
Q really
A have you been to Paris
Q no
A Paris is a ghost
Q no it’s not
A have you read Thomas Pynchon
Q but we digress
A a ghost has no right angles
Q how do you relax
A swimming
Q who is that man
A he does the zeroes
Q did you say swimming
A I saw you at Saks once buying makeup in the middle of the night
Q wasn’t me
A it was the night the counter flooded
Q no
A you can’t put one in till you take one out
Q one what
A zero
Q does your hair keep growing
A yes but it is apples
anne carson
she dies
in April 2019 of alcohol and indescribable longing
most people
blush before death
she just
steps off
Anne Carson, Powerless Structures Fig. II (Sanne)
“We purchase blood oranges and eat them very fast. It is already late when you wake up inside a question. Rose petals are being swept from the church steps as we pass, and faces in the doorway are lit with vague regret. Someone has roused the town, not me.”
-Anne Carson, from Plainwater
are there any texts or films you would recommend exploring the theme of women’s desire?
Luce Irigaray—This Sex Which is Not One
Luce Irigaray—”When Our Lips Speak Together”
Carolyn Knapp–APPETITES: Why Women Want
Jade Sharma–Problems
Maggie Nelson—Bluets
Katherine Angel—Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Helene Cixous–The Laugh of the Medusa
Charlotte Shane—”When Desire Goes Dark”
Jess Zimmerman—”Hunger Makes Me”
Kathy Acker–”-Desire: A Play in Two Parts”
Kathy Acker—Blood and Guts in High School
Dodie Bellamy–Cunt-Ups
Dodie Bellamy–The Letters of Mina Harker
Karen Volkman—Spar
Lucie Brock-Broido—Master Letters
Maurice Pialat—A Nos Amours
Anne Carson from The Beauty of The Husband
a better story when Anne Carson tells it
Bianca Stone illustration from Anne Carson’s Antigonick
Anne Carson, from The Beauty of the Husband
Little Bristling Soul 