Louisiana Literature

Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting

Christian Season 1 Episode 10

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Enjoy this spellbinding performance by Anne Carson, heralded as one of the most important contemporary poets in the English-speaking world. Together with her collaborator, Robert Currie, Carson performs a staged reading of a text that tells creation stories while adopting the viewpoint of the sky. 
Anne Carson and Robert Currie performed ‘Lecture on the History of Skywriting’ (2016) at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2018.