”I watch a thunderstorm play the piano.”
In this video, Canadian poet Anne Carson shares a performance of the work ‘Stacks.
Originally, the piece was a collaboration between the choreographer Jonah Bokaer, sculptor Peter Cole and Anne Carson. In this version, Carson is joined by fellow poet Danez Smith and her collaborator and partner, Robert Currie.
Anne Carson (b. 1950) is a Canadian poet, writer, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. In the course of what has been called a “unclassifiable publishing career,” Carson has published a wide range of acclaimed “genre-bending” work such as ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ (1986) – which was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library – , ‘Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse’ (1998), ‘Men in the Off Hours’ (2001), ‘The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos’ (2001), ‘Nox’ (2010), ‘Red Doc’ (2013) and ‘Float’ (2016). She is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Lannan Literary Award (1996), Griffin Poetry Prize (2001), T.S. Eliot Prize (2001), PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2010) and Griffin Poetry Prize (2014).
Anne Carson, Danez Smith and Robert Currie performed ‘Stacks’ at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2024.
Camera: Rasmus Quigaard and Simon Wehye
Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2025
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