Anne Carson is the slipperiest kind of heretic—the fluid hybridity of her work makes its intentions as difficult to grasp as a fish underwater. The Canadian poet and classicist has emerged in the last ...
In 13 intricately related, supple and confident works in verse and prose, eminent poet and classicist Carson (Autobiography of Red ) takes on the meaning and function of sleep; the art and attitudes ...
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Anne Carson can come across as a writer with no clear lineage or influences — even as she references the work of other authors, her poetry and prose seem to float relatively free of clear affiliation ...
Poet and translator Carson and artist Bruno find dark humor in the collapse of civilization in their graphic novel adaptation of Euripides’s The Trojan Women (New Directions). How did this project ...
Anne Carson is a mental pentathlete. A professor of classical and comparative literature, she turns her muscular intellect from modern to ancient erotics and from the sacred to the profane with all ...
Anne Carson's translations of four plays by Euripides are dynamic, intense and were written to be performed. The only problem is that, as she translated, Carson realized she hates Euripides. In this ...
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