No, there aren’t any words missing, nothing to orient you—just this weirdly spaced dialogue. So Anne Carson might be a little crazy. I’ve suspected this for some time, but her new book confirms it.

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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The strange story of the life and death of poet Anne Carson's brother, Michael, is worthy of the unique boxed book-cum-scroll, called Nox (New Directions), that she created to tell it. Carson was born ...

Even putting aside her overarching focus on the classics, Anne Carson is a poet out-of-time, somewhat at odds with contemporary society’s impulse toward instant gratification. She is about as far from ...

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Anne Carson is a classicist, formerly teaching at Princeton, now at McGill, who some years ago published “Bittersweet,” a short, magisterial study of the concept of the bittersweet in Greek and Roman ...

The poet and essayist Anne Carson is fascinated by the difficulties of translation—both the translation of ancient Greek to modern English (she is a professor of classics) and the translation of ...

“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet”: Thus begins Anne Carson’s 1998 Autobiography of Red, a book by one of the best-known poets of our century inspired by ...