Robert Currie

The angle-bracket in the title is an accident which Carson made permanent: the name, she says, which her computer gave to her draft. Another technical glitch accounts for the fact that [m]ost of the text...

AC was first married in 1972 and published under her married name of Giacomelli for the eight years of her marriage. This publication history includes her PhD dissertation. She divorced her first husband in 1980....

The designer was Carson's husband, Robert Currie (who also designed her next publication, Antigonick, an unorthodox version of Sophocles ' Antigone). Pages have the appearance of collages. Black-and-white photographs are presented without caption...

The contents variously gather lectures, poems, notes, performance pieces . . . and miscellanea. There is much evidence of collaboration with other artists, like Roni Horn , Laurie Anderson , and Carson's husband and co-performer...