Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

New trade paperback, Vintage Contemporaries (Vintage Books, Random House), New York. First published in this edition October 2006, originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 2005. The covers are unmarked, and the pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Unread. 248 pages. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist and classicist, born in Toronto. It takes its title from Simone Weil’s idea of decreation, an undoing of the self, and works through forms including opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, and essay.