Anne Carson, Author . Knopf $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4349-1
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 of Samuel Beckett; the last days of an elderly...
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Anne Carson, Author . New Directions $29.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1870-2
In order to discuss Carson's latest work—a foldout, Jacob's ladder collage of letters, photographs, and poetry, all housed in a beautiful box—one must first address its resistance to being addressed. Rather, what Carson does (an
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Anne Carson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (260p) ISBN 978-0-679-43178-7
Despite her fastidious, ornately post-modern style, Carson finds her subject matter in classicism. The fruits of this unique, difficult combination are strikingly displayed in this selection of her published work. Seemingly composed of equal parts...
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Anne Carson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-40803-8
Carson's demanding style has been among the decade's most intriguing: critics with little else in common look forward to her inimitable and argumentative poems. Carson made her last splash with the narrative poem Autobiography of Red. This follow-up
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Anne Carson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-40804-5
After the Canadian classicist, polymath and MacArthur ""genius grant"" winner's much-acclaimed verse-novel Autobiography of Red (1997)--and exactly a year after Men in the Off Hours--comes a second book-length, mostly-narrative poem: this charming,...
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Anne Carson. Knopf, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-307-96058-0
Carson is one of the most famous poets writing in English; her many rabid fans await her new books with eager anticipation. A classicist by training, Carson has found, over a career spanning three decades and 14 books of poetry, prose, drama, and...
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Anne Carson. Knopf, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-1-101-94684-8
Classicist, poet, and translator Carson (Red Doc>) further expands her reputation as a genre-defying innovator with her latest book-as-art-object: a collection of 23 individual chapbooks presented in a clear acetate case. As a whole, the work...
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Anne Carson, Author, Guy Davenport, Introduction by New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1302-8
Fusing confession, narrative and classicism, Carson's poetry witnesses the collision of heart and mind with breathtaking vitality. In five long poems and a final essay (the provocative ``The Gender of Sound''), her often droll tone and limber use of
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Anne Carson. New Directions, $12.95 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-0-81122-936-4
It is a hallmark of Carson’s style to leave the juxtaposition of two cultural entities unexplained. The latest stirring verse play by Carson (Nox) takes this practice to its extreme, crafting its title (and only) character by overlaying Marilyn...
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Anne Carson. New Directions, $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2710-0
Multidisciplinary poet-scholar Carson (Antigonick) unveils a stripped-down and faithful “new version” of Euripides’s classic tragedy. Though she has been known to take liberties with her interpretations of classical Greek literature, here the...
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Rosanna Bruno and Anne Carson. New Directions, $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-811-23079-7
Set in post-war Troy, this wrenching comics-poetry update of Euripides’ tragic play by MacArthur fellow poet Carson (Float) and artist Bruno (The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson) embodies feminine narratives with wry lyricism. Bruno’s black-and-white
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Anne Carson. New Directions, $22.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3123-7
Carson’s latest translation of an ancient myth sees her interrogate the excesses and limits of heroism by bringing Euripides’s tragedy Herakles into a modern context. Updating the setting from ancient Greece to an airstream trailer, Carson uses a...
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Anne Carson. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3034-6
Carson’s genre-bending latest (after H of H Playbook) features the time-splicing mythology readers have come to expect of her fiercely intelligent, mordantly articulate mind. Comprised largely of prose poems that are “cold but not shocking,” as...
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