The Emptiness Where God Would Be
From the Blog awaisaftabFrom Anne Carson's interview at The Paris Review: *Interviewer:* Do you think of yourself as having a relationship with God? *Anne Carson:* [...] reading a lot of mystics, especially Simone Weil, I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't. As Carson talks of a relationship with the emptiness where God would be, it seems she has developed a relationship with another sort of a emptiness... the empty poetic spaces we have in Sappho's poetry, poetry of which we have inherited only fragments. Just like God, those missing slivers of verses are unavailable (while existing in a sense), but the readers and interpreters are invariably drawn into a relationship. *Anpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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