Anne Carson

All Work

• Fiction

  October 22, 2018 Issue

  “Flaubert Again”

  

  “If she were ever really writing, the writing would pull her down into itself and erase everything but her decency. ”

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  August 7 & 14, 2017 Issue

  “Clive Song”

  “If I were an early person / I’d look for the limits of wisdom / by going to sacred oak trees / or the local blind man with lips on fire.”

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  May 1, 2017 Issue

  “Saturday Night as an Adult”

  Poetry: “We eat intently, as if eating were conversation. We keep passing the bread. My fish comes unboned, I weep pretending allergies.”

  By Anne Carson

• Fiction

  October 31, 2016 Issue

  Back the Way You Went

  

  Fiction: “What would they have seen if they’d gazed into each other’s depths? But they didn’t.”

  By Anne Carson

• Fiction

  January 11, 2016 Issue

  “1 = 1”

  

  Fiction: “What is the price of desolation, and who pays.”

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  December 14, 2015 Issue

  “Little Racket”

  Poetry: “I can hear from their little racket, the birds are burning / up and down like holy fools somewhere inside it.”

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  August 10 & 17, 2015 Issue

  “Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage)”

  Poetry: “Forest shade, lake shade, poplar shade, highway shade, / backyard shade, café shade, down-behind-the-high-school / shade.”

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  February 10, 2014 Issue

  Pronoun Envy

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  April 22, 2013 Issue

  Short Talk on Herbology

  By Anne Carson

• Poems

  June 13 & 20, 2011 Issue

  O Dad

  By Anne Carson