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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
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  • Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    / Poetry

    …part philosophy, Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986, reissued 1998), is an examination of the nature of desire. The short essays (or prose poems) on several topics that comprise Short Talks (1992) were incorporated into Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995), a volume with water as its central…

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    …part philosophy, Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986, reissued 1998), is an examination of the nature of desire. The short essays (or prose poems) on several topics that comprise Short Talks (1992) were incorporated into Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995), a volume with water as its central…

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