"A Poetics of Hospitality through the Work of Anne Carson"
Anne Carson is a writer of paradox. Bearing subtitles such as “A Novel in Verse” (Autobiography of Red), “Poetry, Essays, Opera” (Decreation), and “A Fictional Essay in Twenty-Nine Tangos” (The Beauty of the Husband), her works illuminate spaces of exchange—between genres, languages, and the readers and writers of texts. This colloquium will draw out a framework of poetic hospitality in Carson's work: a hospitality through which Carson offers habitable spaces within the supposed opposites of paradox to her readers. We will explore how her poetic forms might be compatible with a Christian poetics, and how they might provide fruitful frameworks for theological thinking.
Our discussion will center around material and textual encounter with Carson's 2010 Nox—a work that blends essay, archive, poetry, and translation into a physical object memorializing loss.
Facilitated by Ally Stapleton, MAR Candidate in Religion and Literature | Yale Divinity School
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