{"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.\"--"}, "key": "/works/OL20048118W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL774502A"}}], "title": "Float", "subjects": ["Canadian poetry", "Chapbooks", "Poetry (poetic works by one author)"], "subject_times": ["21st century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8891345], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T20:36:55.159614"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-10-08T21:06:43.412776"}}