Alright, you faggots.Since everyone's talking shit about Anne Carson and pretending to have read her while clearly only a very small portion of you has, we're going to read her together page by page and discuss her nobel prize-winning poetry AFTER looking at it, do a hylem analysis, critique, talk shit about it or whatever.Starting with:>RED MEAT:>FRAGMENTS OF STESICHOROSSkipping the preface. Read it yourself if you want to.>I. GERYON>Geryon was a monster everything about him was red>Put his snout out of the covers in the morning it was red>How stiff the red landscape where his cattle scraped against>Their hobbles in the red wind>Burrowed himself down in the red dawn jelly of Geryon’s>Dream>Geryon’s dream began red then slipped out of the vat and ran>Upsail broke silver shot up through his roots like a pup>Secret pup At the front end of another red day
>>25582519>II. MEANWHILE HE CAME>Across the salt knobs it was Him>Knew about the homegold>Had sighted red smoke above the red spires
>>25582524>III. GERYON’S PARENTS>If you persist in wearing your mask at the supper table>Well Goodnight Then they said and drove him up>Those hemorrhaging stairs to the hot dry Arms>To the ticking red taxi of the incubus>Don’t want to go want to stay Downstairs and read
>>25582528>IV. GERYON’S DEATH BEGINS>Geryon walked the red length of his mind and answered No>It was murder And torn to see the cattle lay>All these darlings said Geryon And now me
>>25582532>V. GERYON’S REVERSIBLE DESTINY>His mother saw it mothers are like that>Trust me she said Engineer of his softness>You don’t have to make up your mind right away>Behind her red right cheek Geryon could see>Coil of the hot plate starting to glow
>>25582537>VI. MEANWHILE IN HEAVEN>Athena was looking down through the floor>Of the glass-bottomed boat Athena pointed>Zeus looked Him
>>25582540>VII. GERYON’S WEEKEND>Later well later they left the bar went back to the centaur’s>Place the centaur had a cup made out of a skull Holding>three>Measures of wine Holding it he drank Come over here you>can>Bring your drink if you’re afraid to come alone The centaur>Patted the sofa beside him Reddish yellow small alive>animal>Not a bee moved up Geryon’s spine on the inside
>>25582548>VIII. GERYON’S FATHER>A quiet root may know how to holler He liked to>Suck words Here is an almighty one he would say>After days of standing in the doorway>NIGHTBOLLSNORTED
>>25582551>IX. GERYON’S WAR RECORD>Geryon lay on the ground covering his ears The sound>Of the horses like roses being burned alive
>>25582555>X. SCHOOLING>In those days the police were weak Family was strong>Hand in hand the first day Geryon’s mother took him to>School She neatened his little red wings and pushed him>In through the door
>>25582519>Skipping the preface. Read it yourself if you want to.I highly recommend to read the preface. It's important in setting the tone. It lets the reader know that the book is meant to be humorous. The very first sentence is a joke.
>>25582569Agreed. I've read it. I just didn't want to bore the populus.
>>25582557>XI. RIGHT>Are there many little boys who think they are a>Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the>Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him>Joyfully
>>25582597>XII. WINGS>Steps off a scraped March sky and sinks>Up into the blind Atlantic morning One small>Red dog jumping across the beach miles below>Like a freed shadow
>>25582600>XIII. HERAKLES’ KILLING CLUB>Little red dog did not see it he felt it All>Events carry but one
>>25582607>XIV. HERAKLES’ ARROW>Arrow means kill It parted Geryon’s skull like a comb Made>The boy neck lean At an odd slow angle sideways as when a>Poppy shames itself in a whip of Nude breeze
>>25582609>XV. TOTAL THINGS KNOWN ABOUT GERYON>He loved lightning He lived on an island His mother was a>Nymph of a river that ran to the sea His father was a gold>Cutting tool Old scholia say that Stesichoros says that>Geryon had six hands and six feet and wings He was red and>His strange red cattle excited envy Herakles came and>Killed him for his cattle>The dog too
>>25582613>XVI. GERYON’S END>The red world And corresponding red breezes>Went on Geryon did not
>>25582614Skipping: APPENDIX A>TESTIMONIA>ON THE QUESTION OF>STESICHOROS’ BLINDING>BY HELENContinuing with:APPENDIX B>THE PALINODE>OF>STESICHOROS>BY>STESICHOROS>(FRAGMENT>192 POETAE MELICI>GRAECI)>No it is not the true story.>No you never went on the benched ships.>No you never came to the towers of Troy.
>>25582621Skipping:APPENDIX C>CLEARING UP>THE QUESTION OF>STESICHOROS’ BLINDING>BY HELENContinuing with:>AUTOBIOGRAPHY>OF RED>A ROMANCE
>>25582629>The reticent volcano keeps>His never slumbering plan—>Confided are his projects pink>To no precarious man.>If nature will not tell the tale>Jehovah told to her>Can human nature not survive>Without a listener?>Admonished by her buckled lips>Let every babbler be>The only secret people keep>Is Immortality.>EMILY DICKINSON,>NO. 1748
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Why do you pull on your stick, anon?
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>>25582519Maybe the most damning condemnation of all, nobody even gives enough of a shit to talk about her work one way or another. Dead civilization. Thanks is no small part to women like her. Fabulous!
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>>25582524>II. MEANWHILE HE CAMEAND SO DID I. Bravo Carson!
meh, it's alright
>>25582569>Skipping the preface.
