Anne Carson

Anne Carson is a Canadian writer best known for her work in poetry, translation, fiction, literary criticism, and on and across the boundaries between poetry and prose and between one genre and another. She is a celebrated essayist whose work has deep roots in her expert knowledge of Classics. She has published several award-winning books of poetry (the first in 1992) as well as a number of essay collections and translations. A reviewer has observed: Few poets satisfy so clearly Eliot's criterion for a major poet: each of Carson's works casts light on all the rest. The future should look at everything she has written.
Burt, Stephen. “Professor or Pinhead”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 14, pp. 19-22.
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Nevertheless, her continuing voluminousness
Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, editor. “Introduction”. Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, University of Michigan Press, pp. 2-9.
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is such that by no means all of her works are discussed here.
Photo of Anne Carson holding a microphone and looking offstage as she speaks at The Shed, New York City, 6 March 2018.

Milestones

June 21, 1950

Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She was the second child of her parents, behind her older brother, Michael.
American Poets Since World War II: Sixth Series. Gale Research, pp. 46-53.
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Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29-53.
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By May 1998

AC built her Autobiography of Red. A Novel in Verse on the Greek myth of the monster Geryon: her story is told from the viewpoint of Geryon, who is not a monster but first a red boy, later a red man, with wings.
Padel, Ruth. “Seeing Red”. The New York Times.

April 2010

AC 's prose-poem elegy for her brother, Nox (Latin for Night), took an extraordinary form: not separate pages bound as a codex, but a long single page which folds out, concertina-wise, from a handsome box featuring an inscrutable image of Michael Carson as a tall, thin child dressed for swimming.
Burt, Stephen. “Professor or Pinhead”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 14, pp. 19-22.
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Carson, Anne. Nox. New Directions.
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Biography

Birth and Early Life

June 21, 1950

Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She was the second child of her parents, behind her older brother, Michael.
American Poets Since World War II: Sixth Series. Gale Research, pp. 46-53.
193: 47
Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29-53.
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