
Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis.

–Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
“Sumptuous destitution”
is a phrase
scholars use
of female
silence.
Save what you can, Emily.
Save every bit of thread.
One of them may be
the way out of here.


from Anne Carson’s “Burners Go Raw” in the London Review of Books 31:4 (26 Feb 2009)
from a Navajo song quoted from Bruce Lincoln’s Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies in Rituals of Women’s Initiation by Gregory Nagy in Poetry as Performance
from a detail on the cover of Poetry as Performance. Ibid.

Anne Carson from Autobiography of Red

Michael Burkard

AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR MYSELF A NEW HEART FROM SALT AND MUD
Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

carl sandburg