It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one anothe… - Anne Carson

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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Anne Carson

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry · March 28, 2000 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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Alternative Names: Anne Patricia Carson

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PYLADES: I'll take care of you.
ORESTES: It's rotten work.
PYLADES: Not to me. Not if it's you.

Banal sexism aside,
I find myself tempted

to read Wuthering Heights as one thick stacked act of revenge
for all that life withheld from Emily.
But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.

As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.
It is a chilly thought.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together. - Anne Carson

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