Glass, Irony and God -- Anne Carson, Paperback Travel - General delivers quick punchlines

delivers quick punchlines

and other fascinating facts

truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no one's side

for it shall be of their own devising

and the holiday season is as merry as the tradition it depicts

Glass, Irony and God -- Anne Carson, Paperback Travel - General delivers quick punchlinesKnown as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bront sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome