Glass, Irony and God
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Published in 1995, Glass, Irony and God brings together some of Anne Carson’s most striking explorations of love, grief, faith and the complicated interior life of modern women. At its centre is The Glass Essay, a remarkable sequence in which a woman returns to her childhood home following the end of a relationship, finding her own emotional desolation reflected in the writings of Emily Brontë. Across the collection, Carson moves between autobiography, classical allusion, literary criticism and philosophical reflection. Her subjects range from erotic longing and spiritual uncertainty to the uneasy relationship between the body, language and identity.
The collection displays Carson’s extraordinary ability to move between intellectual precision and emotional exposure without losing her characteristic wit. Its unusual forms resist easy categorisation, combining poetry, essay and narrative in ways that continually unsettle the boundaries between them. An essential work in Carson’s development, Glass, Irony and God helped establish her reputation as one of the most inventive and intellectually adventurous poets writing in English.
From the book
“Dr. Haw says grief is a long process.” — Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
On Glass, Irony and God
“A striking book.” — Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books