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Anne Carson
Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)
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The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering…
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The winged red monster Geryon’s story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and…
Anne Carson (New Directions)
Anne Carson’s poetry-characterized by various reviewers as short talks, essays, or verse narratives -combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own.
Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years-a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out book in a box.
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Euripides
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as the author. The New York Times Book Review calls her work personal, necessary, and important, while Publishers Weekly…
* The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poets
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years
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In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths…
A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 tangos of narrative verse, informed by the poet’s own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical…
A collection of poems blending the modern and the classical. The Canadian author’s subjects range from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, and from waterproofing to walking backwards. A long poem…
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon.
Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography…
In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous Labours of Herakles ) to find he…
Sophocles
Antigonick is a comic-book presentation of Sophokles’ Antigone in a new translation by Anne Carson, with text blocks hand-inked on the page by Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie. On…
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Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles’ luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an…
In this collection, Anne Carson contemplates ‘decreation’, an activity described by Simone Weil as ‘undoing the creature in us’, an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without…
Elizabeth Sarah Coles
The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power. The first monographic study of her…
A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings, Short Talks, Canicula di Anna, The Life of Towns, and The Anthropology…
After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother’s revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra’s actions, Apollo calls on her…
A wide-ranging exploration of Anne Carson’s multi-faceted engagement with antiquity covering the full breadth of her oeuvre, from her novels, poems, and essays to her PhD thesis and artwork.
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From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson’s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential…
Ann E Burg
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global…
The first book of essays dedicated to the work of noted writer, Anne Carson
Sometimes the best of friends come from the unlikeliest of places, and from deep love, one gains courage–even enough to change an entire town including the lives of two recovering…
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Offers a reading of certain of Simonides’ texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are…
La reciente Premio Princesa de Asturias 2020 de las letras, Anne Carson, presenta un poemario en el que se pregunta por el valor de la poesia y la economia linguistica.
In dazzling original poems, essays, screenplay, and libretto gathered here, the author draws on personal experience and the work of others to illuminate decreation –the state in which the self…
A continuation of the author’s ‘Autobiography of red’ (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
From an award-winning poet comes a novel in verse that re-imagines an ancient Greek epic as a modern coming-of-age story. A young boy, who is also a winged red monster…
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red (‘a spellbinding achievement’ - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson’s intoxicating mixture of opposites - the…
A tango (like a marriage) is something dancers have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29…
A poetic meditation on the power of female beauty by Anne Carson.
Ann Baker Carson
In this memoir, Ann Carson recounts her fascinating life, including her time as a prisoner in Philadelphia and her involvement in a high-profile court case. Her story highlights the struggles…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Anne Carson’s New Rule, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Anne Carson,Anne Carson
Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women-Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy-from their point of view Winner of the Governor General Award in Poetry
The Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson’s research on Albertine, the principal love interest of Marcel in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu.
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A gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox), H of H Playbook is a stunning re-creation of Euripides’s famous play, with illustrations by the author
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.
Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a…
The ‘invigorating’, ‘stupendous’ and ‘exhilarating’ guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers
‘It is hard to know how it could possibly be…
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Anne Carson (New Directions),Euripides
A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London
Jo-Ann Carson
The Perfect BrewA potion for mystery & magic When evil rises one clumsy witch must save the world. Cassie Black inherits a sentient coffee-house, complete with an inter-dimensional portal and…
Dial Witch
Trouble brews when a psychic enchantress shares her magic.
When the sorceress Jane Black offers spells, potions, and tarot readings to the regular folk in her small town…
a recipe for love .
When evil rises, one witch must save the world. Cassie Black is a sorceress struggling with her growing powers and chaotic love life. As the…
triple trouble, boil, and bubble
Can an enchantress stop evil from taking over the world? In the third book in the Perfect Brew trilogy, Cassie Black, a powerful witch with…
When evil rises, one clumsy witch must save the world.Cassie Black inherits from her crazy Great-Aunt Ophelia a sentient coffee-house, complete with an inter-dimensional portal. Determined to find her…
Ain’t Misbehavin’ A naked alderman, a haunted trattoria and a love that can not be denied. When the manager of the Black Cat Blues Bar, singer Maggy Malone, witnesses a…
