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The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as ""the most exciting poet writing in English today."" Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.

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Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ""Genius"" Award. Rachel Yong is a SAG-AFTRA stage/film/voice actor and professional narrator for both audiobooks and long-form journalism. She currently narrates with Penguin Random House, Sony's podcasting division, Let's Hear It! Studios, and TDW+Co. She is a two-time Best Actress winner through the Asian American Film Lab and won Best Animation performing as Herman in Herman and Mr. Pointdexter. In the acclaimed historical memoir Remembering Shanghai, she utilizes sixty-plus different character voices, including in Mandarin. Her family background is Cantonese.

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