![]() ![]() (Take life in the Town of Luck: “Digging a hole./ To bury his child alive./ So that he could buy food for his aged mother./ One day./ A man struck gold.”) In short order, Carson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur genius grant. The poem, “The Life of Towns,” uses fragments to explore “the illusion that things hold together somehow.” It is characteristically gnomic-and oddly punctuated-but also characteristically ironic in style. Bloom chose one of her poems for an anthology and suggested that other poets plead for a “transfusion” of her wit. ![]() ![]() Then, in the mid-’90s, Carson (in her 40s) published two utterly assured books of poetry in quick succession- Plainwater and Glass, Irony and God-and arrived like Athena full-born on the scene of English-language poetry, intriguing readers with her riffs on television and historical esoterica. ![]()
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