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and growing up queer in the '90s

" —School Library Journal (starred review)

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera Valentine Seasonal the celebrity turns out to"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." The Economist Simone Weil described decreation as undoing the creature in us an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as