{"id":841,"date":"2025-09-26T19:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teresacarson.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:26:28","slug":"re-moved-used-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teresacarson.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/re-moved-used-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"Re [Moved] [Used] [Covered]"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"cover<\/a>Authors Note<\/h2>\n

The three previous books in my Argument of Time series relied heavily on my lifelong habit of attempting to build something solid\u2014e.g., a city, a life history, a linear narrative\u2014out of fragments. Over time I discovered, at first to my dismay, that my efforts to do this with Ostia Antica were only partially successful because even imagination
\ncouldn\u2019t fill in all of its missing pieces. Although I took a while to accept the truth of the matter, eventually I was inspired to start treating the fragments as complete in their
\nincompleteness. This change required me to inhibit my need for order\u2014in form and thought\u2014but allowed me to inhabit the uncertainty at the heart of everything, which
\nis also what connects everything. Along the way I came face to face with the unsettling yet strangely comforting truth that all memories, including mine, are riddled with
\nuncertainty; therefore, knowing \u201cexactly what happened\u201d is impossible. In the end, an educated guess is the best that any of us can make out of this confusion . . . and as it
\nturns out, that\u2019s good enough.<\/p>\n

Book One: <\/strong>Visit to an Extinct City<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Book Two:<\/strong> Metamorphoses, Book XVI <\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Book Three: <\/strong>Time Out of Joint<\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/span>\n
\n

Purchase<\/h2>\n

Deerbrook Editions for Purchase: Purchase Re [Moved] [Used] [Covered]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Reviews<\/h2>\n

The profound and inventive poems in RE[MOVED] [USED] [COVERED]<\/em>, the fourth book of Teresa Carson\u2019s masterful Argument of Time, <\/i>a 5-volume study and illumination of the ruins of Ostia Antica, offer stunning insights into culture, myth, and the complexity of the human psyche. At once conversational and elegant, informative and questioning, these poems rise from Carson\u2019s conviction that \u201ca landscape retains all of the stories that have happened in it.\u201d In poem after poem, her keen observations and captivating voice inform arresting narratives both long past and vibrantly in the making.<\/p>\n

\u2014Catherine Doty<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Poem from Re [Moved] [Used] [Covered]<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme<\/b><\/p>\n

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In the hallway between Mosaics and Marble Heads<\/p>\n

Anne and I drop to hands and knees<\/p>\n

and creep across terrazzo to look,<\/p>\n

as closely as we can,<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>Not my usual museum behavior.<\/p>\n

at the lower half<\/p>\n

of what remains of a grand fragmented fresco<\/p>\n

deemed worthy of detachment from<\/p>\n

the body of its ancient wall.<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>Now and then museum employees,<\/p>\n

Lines drawn across the emptinesses<\/p>\n

indicate the pattern of the lost\u2014<\/p>\n

I forget those lines for years until<\/p>\n

Anne sends photos because when there<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>glance once then turn away.<\/p>\n

my eyes see nothing but<\/p>\n

the paused woman with head of curls,<\/p>\n

blouse dropped from her shoulder turned to our air,<\/p>\n

left hand clutching a water jar,<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>Their conversations matter more than us.<\/p>\n

right fingers resting lightly on lips and chin<\/p>\n

(my very gesture when I\u2019m lost in thought,<\/p>\n

or paying close attention, or regretting)<\/p>\n

her ghost-gaze focused on<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>I stop worrying about<\/p>\n

something gone . . . mortal? god?<\/p>\n

distant? nearby? remembered or sought for?<\/p>\n

neither Anne nor I nor any one<\/p>\n

will ever see what she still sees,<\/p>\n

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/span>making a fool of myself.<\/p>\n

but I see her.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authors Note The three previous books in my Argument of Time series relied heavily on my lifelong habit of attempting to build something solid\u2014e.g., a city, a life history, a linear narrative\u2014out of fragments. Over time I discovered, at first to my dismay, that my efforts to do this with Ostia Antica were only partially successful because even imagination couldn\u2019t fill in all of its missing pieces. Although I took…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2","category-books","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70BCX-dz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"http:\/\/www.teresacarson.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/additional-works\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":0},"title":"Anthologies","author":"mandrews","date":"October 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Teresa's work can also be found in: A Poet\u2019s Sourcebook\u00a0 Featuring \u201cThe Temple of Delight: John Keats and Jack Wiler.\u201d Available from\u00a0Autumn House Press. 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