{"product_id":"9780375708428","title":"Plainwater: Essays and Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eFROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAstonishingly beautiful poems and essays that stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poetry and prose collected in \u003ci\u003ePlainwater\u003c\/i\u003e are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today.” Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in \u003ci\u003ePlainwater\u003c\/i\u003e dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43876042080317,"sku":"9780375708428","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375708428_p0.jpg?v=1792755656","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780375708428","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}