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“I discovered Anne Carson about ten years ago, and was alone and desperately trying to get people to read her. And then suddenly she seems to have had this explosion. ‘The Glass Essay’ is an amazing piece of writing about the relationship between a mother and daughter. It’s a hugely complex relationship. It’s also an amazing book about dementia and about caring for a father. It’s probably the most interesting thing I’ve ever read about Emily Brontë. There’s a library full of stuff about Brontë, but that thing in Carson’s poem – ‘She knows how to hang puppies, that Emily’ – makes it the most insightful and empathetic borrowing of Emily Brontë’s energies. It’s phenomenal. Anne Carson teaches you is that you can always be clever enough, you can always work harder, you can always train yourself to understand more.” Read more...
Max Porter on the Books That Shaped Him
Max Porter, Novelist
