A review by absalomabsalom
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
October 2019
in turns obscured and then clear and lurid as light sharping strong and bright through glass, more surreal and less stuck to life than autobiography of red, the sense of little near-real people moving around inside a glass insect box, which side they are nearing real on unsure, the introduction of a stolid third perspective, the introduction of the un-red outside world, animaled world - still with pronouns but with name rations only. rationed names, shape, words, space. in-between shadowed world between two bodied modes of being and very naked. being a lot of times is being seen. being known is being naked. maybe in the funnily psychedelic diamond mind of Io is only one vast being, ricocheting desperately between brutality and tenderness.
November 6 2021
Well not every day can be a masterpiece. This one sails out and out and out
in turns obscured and then clear and lurid as light sharping strong and bright through glass, more surreal and less stuck to life than autobiography of red, the sense of little near-real people moving around inside a glass insect box, which side they are nearing real on unsure, the introduction of a stolid third perspective, the introduction of the un-red outside world, animaled world - still with pronouns but with name rations only. rationed names, shape, words, space. in-between shadowed world between two bodied modes of being and very naked. being a lot of times is being seen. being known is being naked. maybe in the funnily psychedelic diamond mind of Io is only one vast being, ricocheting desperately between brutality and tenderness.
November 6 2021
Well not every day can be a masterpiece. This one sails out and out and out