Beware the Man Whose Handwriting Sways Like a Reed in the Wind
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Pub Date Feb 23 2027 | Archive Date Jan 31 2027
New Directions Publishing | New Directions
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Description
Anne Carson on handwriting, Catullus and the art of Cy Twombly, and on brain science and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me. My responsibility to forms can’t be gracefully fulfilled. Nonetheless, I offer the following in the hope it does not strike you as disheveled or depressing . . .”
About the Author: Anne Carson was born in Canada. Her many books of poetry and translation include Antigonick, Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband, Glass, Irony and God, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, Nox, and Wrong Norma (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry). She recently won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Advance Praise
"Anne Carson’s is among the most inventive, astringent sensibilities in modern letters." -George Steiner - Times Literary Supplement
"Her shape-shifting powers are epic." -Vanity Fair
"Anne Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary life." -Sam Anderson - The New York Times Magazine
"Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty." -Colm Tóibín
"She is an inspiration to us all. She is that rarest of entities, a writer as fearless as she is gifted." -Michael Cunningham
"For all Carson’s extensive reading, her best work has a pared-to-the-bone simplicity. Desire and fear. Eros and loss. That glare again." -Tristam Fane Saunders - Times Literary Supplement
"She has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, the power to bring out the poemhood in any prose genre and to complicate the poemhood of poems. She mixes everything together in a casual defiance suggesting literature is always and never true, an art of fact. She translates meaning not just across language but across gapes of time, making ancient texts sound just-spoken. She may be the easiest difficult poet, toying with obscurity but too hilarious to be truly intimidating." -Elisa Gabbert - New York Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780811241359 |
| PRICE | $11.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 48 |