Float

"Float is an uncontained delight. This collection of loose chapbooks — poems, lists, essays, speeches — can be read in any order. Cryptic, antic and funny, all contain sparks of something truly original. The subjects are often classical but range from Zeus to the artist Yves Klein to Joan of Arc to her brother’s widow (“she dies / in April 2010 of alcohol and indescribable longing”). Anne Carson’s thoughts feel like anarchic rainfall, a fresh shower, an escape."