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Reading this poem by Henri Cole in the suddenly green shade (I mean truly, through a pane of stained glass) of @merrill_house.
“It was as if I could dream what I wanted, / and what I wanted was to long for nothing—”
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with Henri Cole in Boston, in happier pre-COVID19 era when all we had to be concerned with was the meaning of life & the travails of lyric poetry.
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“The movement of the poem should be like a canal, with a volta that surprises the reader.” —Henri Cole buff.ly/VJICsGH
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From James Merrill’s letters, as lovely a piece of art criticism as I know. “When I was little my mother used to say there was an animal heaven where pets went after death…Vermeer makes you believe in a heaven for things + textures—cracked leather, brass, paper, silk, + yarn.”
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With wit, imagination, and a style entirely her own, Canadian poet Anne Carson has reimagined the classics. She has brought ancient stories to new audiences and transformed the way we think about literature.
Congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Anne. An extraordinary achievement and a proud moment for Canada.
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Anne Carson was denied tenure at Princeton when she was 36 years old. Today, 40 years later, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Just in!
New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon.
Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
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everything that Anne Carson has written is risky & original in some (unpredictable) way. truly an unclassifiable imagination-- poet, translator, essayist, philosopher, observer of the vicissitudes of life; we'd met just once decades ago at Princeton where Anne Carson was an instructor in the Classics Dept. & I was--hypothetically--just a "visitor" for one year in Creative Writing.
not predictable that Anne would move on, & on, & on to numerous universities & I would remain at Princeton; now hoping that she is in Canada & not caught up in toxic US politics so antithetical to the humanism & freedom of the imagination required for the soul to breathe.
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
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Congratulations to my neighbor Willard Spiegelman on the publication of his "buoyant, big-hearted" memoir today!
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Frenemies in the early days before the troubles - Gore Vidal (b. 3 October), Truman Capote (b. 30 September), and Tennessee Williams, gay literary giants of the mid-20th Century 🏳️🌈
The Penguin UK edition of "The Other Love" has just arrived, and I look forward to celebrating its publication in London next month. It was certainly worth waiting until I was 70 to have this little penguin enter my life.
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Remembering W.H. Auden, Isherwood’s collaborator and lifelong friend, who died on this day in 1973.
#whauden #christopherisherwood
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Henri Cole: “A cruel Providence,/any youthful corpse: the devil/subverting time.”
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with interviewer Eric Anderson at the British Library tonight. wonderful audience & hosts—many thanks!
