Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, March 2023
Edward Carson’s movingparts is truly “a temple of dapple in a tempest of cause.” His preoccupation with how our minds work—how they are sparked by desire and emotion—treats us to urgent explorations, like his meditation on Aesop’s fable of the fox and the crow. Carson turns that encounter over and over in his hands to create a brilliant sixteen-faceted jewel, each surface polished by investigation, analysis and poetic wit. He then presents fourteen sonnets that are “detonated” by lines from other poets, and that meld desire memory anatomy. And, finally, with exquisite control of his craft, Carson walks with Sappho through the terrain of the erotic, discussing “the physics of craving.”
Maureen Hynes, author of Sotto Voce
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