Economy of the Unlost: (reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)

by Anne Carson

Book Overview

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691091757
• ISBN13: 9780691091754
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"