Glass, irony and God

Anne Carson's poetry has been characterized by critics as essays, short lectures or verse narratives in a singular voice.

With the book Glass, Irony and God, the author weaves together various poetic threads, ancient and contemporary, in a collection of six texts: five long poems and a final essay in prose.

These include The Glass Essay, about the end of a love told through readings of Emily Brontë, TV Men, where Hector of Troy, Artaud and Sappho, among others, appear as television characters, or The Fall of Rome, on the occasion of Carson's trip to discover the city and her attempt to overcome the terrible alienation she felt there.