{"table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "By chance the cycladic people --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Candor --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Cassandra float can --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Contempts: a study of profit and nonprofit in Homer, Moravia and Godard --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "The designated mourner by Wally Shawn, final production, NYC, June 2013 --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Eras of Yves Klein --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Good dog I, II, and III --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "How to like \"If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso\" by Gertrude Stein --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "L.A. --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Maintenance --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Merry Christmas from Hegel --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Nelligan: some poems translated from the French --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "108 (flotage) --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Performance notes --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Pinplay: a version of Euripides' Bacchae --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Possessive used as drink (me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Powerless structures fig. 11 (Sanne) --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Pronoun envy --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Stacks --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Uncle falling: a pair of lyric lectures with shared chorus --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Variations on the right to remain silent --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Wildly constant --", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Zeusbits.", "pagenum": "", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of brilliance and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format--individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case--this collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories \"maddeningly attractive\" when observed in spaces that are suggestively in-between. One can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling--a piece that also unearths poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a poem called \"Wildly Constant\" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast.\"--"}, "isbn_10": ["1910702579"], "series": ["[Poetry Book Society recommendation]"], "subject_times": ["21st century"], "full_title": "Float a collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various", "lc_classifications": ["PS3553.A7667"], "key": "/books/OL27228143M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL774502A"}], "subtitle": "a collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various", "contributions": ["Pappas, Cassandra J., designer"], "subjects": ["Canadian poetry", "Chapbooks"], "isbn_13": ["9781910702574"], "pagination": "272 unnumbered pages", "source_records": ["marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run05.mrc:415362807:4210", "bwb:9781910702574"], "title": "Float", "dewey_decimal_class": ["811.6"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Title from slipcase front cover.\n\n\"Reading can be freefall\"--Note on front cover of slipcase.\n\n22 chapbooks and 3 booklets in a plastic slipcase.\n\nPagination from amazon.com.\n\nA Borzoi book."}, "number_of_pages": 272, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223114477376", "urn:sfpl:31223114477285"], "publish_date": "2016", "publish_country": "enk", "by_statement": "Anne Carson ; case design by Cassandra J. Pappas", "oclc_numbers": ["976020512"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL20048118W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T20:36:55.159614"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-20T08:27:03.544065"}}