Anne Carson
Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize ... [... more]
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
 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]
$24.00
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If Not, Winter
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of ... [... 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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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]
$14.00
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Glass, Irony and God (Cape Poetry)
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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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]
$27.50
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Conjunctions: 46, Selected Subversions: Essays on the ...
Author: John Crowley Author: Fanny Howe Author: Anne Carson Author: Ken Gross Author: Robert Harbison Author: Ricky Jay Author: Michael Martone Author: Honor Moore Author: Geoffrey O'Brien Author: Rosamond Purcell Author: Joanna Scott Author: David [... 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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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]
$12.95
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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Intelligence Has No Other Name: Intelligence has no other name than Anne Carson. And "Decreation" proves that Ms. Carson has not lost the good of intellect as she pursues an incomphrehensible sublime through the intricate paths that connect the [... more]
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Decreation
Intelligence Has No Other Name: Intelligence has no other name than Anne Carson. And "Decreation" proves that Ms. Carson has not lost the good of intellect as she pursues an incomphrehensible sublime through the intricate paths that connect the [... more]
$14.95
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