Time Out Recommends Anne Carson, Dorothea Lasky, More for Summer Reading...

Time Out New York recommends new poetry books for their Summer Reads! Titles featured include Dorothea Lasky's Rome, Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night, Bianca Stone's Someone Else's Wedding Vows, and The Albertine Workout, by Anne Carson (which we mentioned recently!). Of the latter, Tiffany Gibert writes:

Pick it up if: You secretly love celebrity gossip columns. While the two characters Carson considers in her slim chapbook are not, technically, celebrities but fictional characters from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the author’s consideration of their romance assuages the same salacious impulse. In 59 swift and elegant paragraphs, plus appendices, Carson dissects the novel, opening its unique truths to the reader and revealing Albertine’s correspondence to real facts of Proust’s life.

Where to read it: In a French café, eating a madeleine, of course.

And of Lasky's Rome!

Pick it up if: You want to read your friends’ diaries. Lasky writes so openly about her own spiritual and physical powers and weaknesses—as a woman, as a sexual being, as someone who has watched more porn than you ever will—readers may experience a guilty sense of intrusion. But Lasky balances her violent, often bloody honesty with such delicate lines, such perfectly on-point questions about life, you’ll wish your journals sounded this profound.

Where to read it: On a beach where no one will see you blush.

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