Contemporary Canadian poet, essayist and translator of Greek mythology
Anne Carson (1950- ) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics at New York University.
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Glass, Irony, And God
“In its very form, NOX embodies the complexity of loss.”
— Sarah Zimmerman, Print Mag on Anne Carson's Nox
“Reading Anne Carson is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.”
— Richard Bernstein, The New York Times on Anne Carson's
“Here, from the muse of paradox, from Eros the Bittersweet, are poems that shuttle and veer between Hebraism and Hellenism, serendipity and the full blown sequence, the wry and the wondrous, autobiography and the story of the race.”
— Robert Fagles on Anne Carson's Glass, Irony, And God
“...breathtaking, evidence of visionary publishing at a moment when the book business is increasingly cynical.”
— Publisher's Weekly on Anne Carson's Nox
“Carson has created an individual form and style for narrative verse. Seldom has Pound's injunction 'Make It New' been so spectacularly obeyed.”
— New York Review of Books on Anne Carson
“This volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language.”
— Anne Carson on Guy Davenport's 7 Greeks
Louis Zukofsky
Mircea Cartarescu
Carson McCullers
Edward Dahlberg
Henry Miller
David Daiches
José Emilio Pacheco