Short Talks

by Anne Carson

Overview

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771313704
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Anne Carson is the author of the widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours. Her work has previously appeared in Grand Street, Raritan Review, The Best American Essays 1988, and The Best American Poetry 1990. Michael Ondaatje calls Anne Carson "the most exciting poet writing in English today". Short Talks is Carson's first book of poetry. She lives in Montreal.

Editorial Reviews

"Short Talks was Anne Carson's first book of poems, and it signaled to the world of poetry that a new and distinctive voice had arrived on the scene."—Jon Eben Field, thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture

"Each piece in Anne Carson's Short Talks is a startling gemÑsome disorienting, some intimate, some wry, some wistful, many bright and impish. This volume, slender in multiple dimensions, will be easy to return to again and again."—Vicki Ziegler, Book Gaga

"It's the unexpectedness of Carson's observations that makes Short Talks so appealing ... "—Barbara Carey, Books in Canada

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