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Economy of the Unlost
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 27.95The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian... more...
Men In The Off Hours
Random House 2011; US$ 20.01Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson re-invents figures as diverse as Oedipus,... more...
The Beauty Of The Husband
Random House 2011; US$ 20.01Since Glass and God , which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received... more...
The Autobiography of Red
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning... more...
An Oresteia
Faber & Faber 2009; US$ 14.99A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia , the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions?Aischylos? Agamemnon , Sophokles? Elektra , and Euripides? Orestes ?giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate... more...
Electra
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 29.99Sophocles' "Electra" tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for he murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. This edition of the play is preceded by a critical introduction and is accompanied by explanatory notes. more...
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