Anne Carson


Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Glass, Irony and God
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Eros the Bittersweet
Red Doc>
Nox
An Oresteia
Antigonick
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Vintage Contemporaries)
Men in the Off Hours (Vintage Contemporaries)
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Vintage Contemporaries)
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
The Bacchae
If Not, Winter by SapphoThe Complete Poems by CatullusThe Captive / The Fugitive by Marcel ProustConfessions by Augustine of HippoHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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Because our conversations were few (he phoned me maybe 5 times in 22 years) I study his sentences the ones I remember as if I'd been asked to translate them. ...more
Anne Carson, Nox

Anne Carson
People really understand very little of one another. Sometimes when I speak to him, my Cid looks very hard and straight into my face as if in search of something (a city on a map?) like someone who has tumbled off a star. But he's not the one who feels alien—ever, I think. He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart. Like Sokrates he fails to understand why travel should be such a challenge to the muscles of the heart, for other people. Around every bend of the road is a city of gold ...more
Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

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