Canadian poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature 🏆❤️
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![Book sits on wood.
Cover photo (by Alain McLaughlin) is B&W: Mirikitani (a Japanese American woman, w/mid length dark hair, wearing a leather jacket, a watch and a ring on her left wrist & ring-finger), smiling, leans out of a 2nd or 3rd story window over a fire escape above a blurry street scene.
Above the photo, in large white hollow text on a burgundy & black pattern:
LOVE WORKS
Below that, on a black horizontal stripe, in medium text:
[grey]Janice [white]MIRIKITANI
Below the photo, on a wider orange horizontal stripe, inside a thin white rectangle, in small text:
SAN FRANCISCO POET LAUREATE • SERIES No. 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreiha4w3lps4z6dcjex2ldppvd5kipbyepy6icdnqphg7l7b2qomleu)
![Poem on pp 70-71 of Love Works reads
THE STORYTELLER
for Brenda Wong Aoki
and Mark Izu
Her voice
a pool of silk
slides over our shoulders
enters our ears.
White crane maiden
weaves feathers
plucked from her heart
into a loom
of words
[ital.]tsu-ka tsu-ka.
A single thread, stained with blood,
is woven
into fables
of greed and love
and who prevails
Who prevails?
Sometimes we
[ital.]fly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreidvkcvjfm2fgi3zf57kcqb7nmzv7bp72aebohxuuebg4firclnfyi)
