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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Core
Gold
Tell
Earth
Molten
Matter
Interior
Things
Returned
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Interiors
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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