“We
participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.”
– Anne Carson
Carson, born on this date in 1950,
is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and Professor of Classics, who has
taught at Montreal’s McGill University, and at the University of Michigan and
Princeton. She holds the distinction of
winning three of the most distinguished and richest writing awards – the
Guggenheim, the MacArthur, and the Lannan.
For Saturday’s Poem, here is
Carson’s
Short Talk on Chromo-Luminarism
Sunlight slows down Europeans. Look at all those
spellbound people in Seurat. Look at Monsieur,
sitting deeply. Where does a European go when he
is ‘lost in thought'? Seurat has painted that
place—the old dazzler! It lies on the other
side of attention, a long lazy boatride from here.
It is A Sunday rather than A Saturday afternoon
there. Seurat has made this clear by a special
method. "Ma méthode," he called it, rather testily,
when we asked him. He caught us hurrying through
the chill green shadows like adulterers. The
river was opening and closing its stone lips.
The river was pressing Seurat to its lips.
spellbound people in Seurat. Look at Monsieur,
sitting deeply. Where does a European go when he
is ‘lost in thought'? Seurat has painted that
place—the old dazzler! It lies on the other
side of attention, a long lazy boatride from here.
It is A Sunday rather than A Saturday afternoon
there. Seurat has made this clear by a special
method. "Ma méthode," he called it, rather testily,
when we asked him. He caught us hurrying through
the chill green shadows like adulterers. The
river was opening and closing its stone lips.
The river was pressing Seurat to its lips.
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