The Yale Review | Sarah Chihaya: "A Glass Essay"

Sarah Chihaya reflects on breakups, reading Anne Carson, and “whaching.”

The Yale Review | Sarah Chihaya: "A Glass Essay" Essays A Glass Essay Reading Anne Carson post-breakup Sarah Chihaya An interior view of the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University, where the author spent a summer re-reading Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay." Getty Images / Lonely Planet In the last week of june 2018 , I got unexpectedly dumped. During the month that followed, I did the only thing that felt right: I read Anne Carson’s long poem “The Glass Essay” every day. I had come to Oxford to teach a summer class as England endured a historic drought, and the sun shone heartlessly, beautifully

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