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Eros the Bittersweet
From the Classics: The Greeks did not cover everything but they made a pretty good start. Anne Carson has always been the queen of fitting classical allusions to the evident. The book could be described as an extended exploration of `Odi et amo: quare id [... more]
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Autobiography of Red
Amazon.com Review: Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of [... more]
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Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Sophocles looks at the psychological dimensions of Electra: The murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes is unique in Greek mythology in that it is the one story for which we have extant versions by all three of the great tragic poets. Consequently, it [... more]
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Amazon.com Review: Though Anne Carson's poetry is shot through with the myths and images of the classical world, that ancient light helps illuminate contemporary situations and concerns. A classics professor at McGill University in Montreal, Carson has [... more]
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Carson's Best: This is Carson's best work, a meditation on loss and longing that outweighs her more popular works. Here in this early work you can find the foundations of form that inspired the young and daring prose stylists Ben Marcus, John D'Agata and [... more]
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Haunting and beautiful: Sadly, much of Sappho's work is lost to the ages. Fortunately, Anne Carson has translated what survives in a wonderful, comprehensive collection. All of Sappho's extant works are here in a dual-language book - the original Greek [... more]
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Men in the Off Hours
Amazon.com Review: Yes, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds--and minor poets. The major ones tend to operate in a trough-and-peak pattern, producing a dozen lesser works for every masterpiece. Still, Anne Carson pushes this tendency to extremes, [... more]
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Haunting and beautiful: Sadly, much of Sappho's work is lost to the ages. Fortunately, Anne Carson has translated what survives in a wonderful, comprehensive collection. All of Sappho's extant works are here in a dual-language book - the original Greek [... more]
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Amazon.com Review: Though Anne Carson's poetry is shot through with the myths and images of the classical world, that ancient light helps illuminate contemporary situations and concerns. A classics professor at McGill University in Montreal, Carson has [... more]
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Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with ...
An Eccentric Pleasure: Like _Eros the Bittersweet_, this is a fine example of Carson's scrupulous and beautifully- written scholarship. And like all of her work, the strangeness of her intensity and consideration is charming and virtuosic. The [... more]
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Glass, Irony and God
A Grand Experiment: While experimental verse often risks feeling contrived or convoluted, Anne Carson's ambitious voice builds on accomplishments of previous works such as "The Life of Towns"-always feeling genuine and purposeful, yielding [... more]
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Short Talks
Great, but available elsewhere.: This wonderful book is also in print as a section of Carson's _Plainwater_collection, which is much more broadly available. If you're nuts about her work, you might want to have it anyway. And you should at least want it, [... more]
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