"You remember too much,

my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that? And I said,

Where can I put it down?"

This quote is from the long, lyrical poem " The Glass Essay " published in Anne Carson's 1995 collection "Glass, Irony and God" — an entry point into the works of the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature laureate .

In the poem, the narrator explores the burden of memory and obsessive desire after a failed love affair, all while regularly reflecting on Emily Brontë — an author renowned for her intense literary depiction of destructive and passionate love in " Wuthering Heights ."

The poem brings several of Carson's recurring obsessions together into one work.…