Anne Carson: Antiquity (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) by Laura JansenRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MBOverview: From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson’s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. […]
Glass, Irony and God by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 318kbOverview: Anne Carson’s poetry―characterized by various reviewers as "short talks," "essays," or "verse narratives"―combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. […]
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 673 KBOverview: Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of viewNorma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn […]
Decreation by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7 MBOverview: In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates “decreation”—an activity described by Simone Weil as “undoing the creature in us”—an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start? […]
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne CarsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 490 KBOverview: The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and […]