14. Anne Carson, "Gnosticism"

The poem starts off well, with a striking first section, but then fizzles out a bit in the next five. The Frank O'Hara/Homer name-dropping doesn't quite work. (Jordan's already pointed this out.) "First line has to make your brain race that's how Homer does it, / that's how Frank O'Hara does it." The poem, or suite of poems, has quotable moments, but doesn't work as a sequence for me. 8.