Det oförlorades ekonomi av Anne Carson

Det oförlorades ekonomi (Economy of the Unlost 2026) av Anne Carson.
En av hennes mest intressanta böcker, en analys av Paul Celan och Simonides (en antike grekiske poeten Simonides från Keos, känd för minneskonsten) - där hon använder hela sin lyriska sensibilitet och analysförmåga för att undersöka vad utbytet betyder för poesin.
Teman: Den kretsar kring poesins form av utbyte, minne, förlust och frågan om vad som går förlorat när vi slösar med ord – med utgångspunkt i bland annat den grekiska prepositionen pros.

Moly. Gudarnas namn på en växt, en magisk ört som Hermes ger till Odysseus i Homeros Odysséen för att skydda honom mot trollpackan Circes trolldom. Odysseus äter den för att inte bli ett svin. Den beskrivs ha svart rot och vit blomma.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. Economy of the Unlost begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of fifth-century b.c. Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language.
This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences--Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair--as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the virtuosic interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility.