Notes from Source: Anne Carson’s choice of a poetic form for many of her creative reflections on self-destructive femininity might be viewed as a decision arising from the need to encapsulate most accurately ambivalent experiences of love and desire — those that can be both alluring and shocking. In almost all of Anne Carson’s texts, from The Glass Essay, to Plainwater and The Beauty of the Husband, heterosexual love is rendered analogously.

Further Notes: Place: New York Publisher: Routledge