Each piece in Anne Carson’s Short Talks is a startling gem – some disorienting, some intimate, some wry, some wistful, many bright and impish. My favourite, combining almost all of those states, is:
Short Talk on Bonheur D’Etre Bien Aimee
Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.
This volume, slender in multiple dimensions, will be so easy to go back to again and again.