# Beware the Man Whose Handwriting Sways Like a Reed in the Wind

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- Book: [Beware the Man Whose Handwriting Sways Like a Reed in the Wind](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind) ([Beware the Man Whose Handwriting Sways Like a Reed in the Wind.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind.md))
- Authors: [Anne Carson](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-carson)
- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-17-8733-705-3
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2027-02-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A personal and searching new work about handwriting, Parkinson's and boxing in Anne Carson's trademark idiosyncratic and visionary writing 'This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me. My responsibility to forms can’t be gracefully fulfilled. Nonetheless, I offer the following in the hope it does not strike you as disheveled or depressing...' 'She is that rarest of entities, a writer as fearless as she is gifted' Michael Cunningham 'Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty' Colm Toibin ‘I would read anything she wrote’ Susan Sontag