Throughout her long and prolific career, Carson has specialized in unexpected juxtapositions between modern life and ancient times, contemporary art and the literature of the past. Be Canadian.

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 ...

To right away avoid being depressing, and because beginnings are important, I’ll begin with a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, who lived in the first century BC and died at the age of thirty. He was ...

are “Wrong Norma” by Anne Carson, “/…/” by Fady Joudah, “Something About Living” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “mother” by m.s. RedCherries and “Modern Poetry” by Diane Seuss.

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Antigone defies the king’s law to bury her brother. Poet and classics scholar Anne Carson modernized the original text to be more actor-friendly and makes reference to contemporary culture such as ...

contributors and our very own editors Erin Lyndal Martin weighs up the pros and cons of recasting the epic in this latest work from Canadian poet Anne Carson, follow-up to her acclaimed Autobiography ...