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  | | Red Doc>(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-95067-3, ISBN: 0-307-95067-0 "Pub Date: 2014-03-11 Pages: 167 Language: English Publisher: Vintage Books ** New York Magazines Top 10 Books of 2013 ** ** GoodReads Readers Choice Award Winner ** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past ..." |
 | | Autobiography of Red(1st Edition) by Anne Carson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70129-0, ISBN: 0-375-70129-X "Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of course, Herakles killed the red-skinned, winged Geryon. In Carson's very contemporary retelling, he merely inspires, but does not return, the monster's passion. By choosing Geryon as her central ..." |
 | | Norma Jeane Baker of Troy(1st Edition) by Euripides Anne Carson Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2020 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2936-4, ISBN: 0-8112-2936-X "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 Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin T ..." |
 | | Grief Lessons Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books (Paperback)) by Anne Carson Euripides, Anne Carson, Anne Euripides/ Carson Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-253-7, ISBN: 1-59017-253-1 "Now in paperback.Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. âEuripides,â the classicist Bernard Knox has written, âwas born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.â His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revea ..." |
 | | Red Doc>(1st Edition) by Anne Carson Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-96058-0, ISBN: 0-307-96058-7 "Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc" continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing." |
 | | Nox by Anne Carson, Robert Currie Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1870-2, ISBN: 0-8112-1870-8 "Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years―a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.”Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus “for his brother who died in the Troad.” Nox is a work o ..." |
 | | Decreation(1st Edition) Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7890-5, ISBN: 1-4000-7890-3 ""One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The EconomistSimone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us” -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, a ..." |
 | | The Beauty of the Husband(Reprint) A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70757-5, ISBN: 0-375-70757-3 "Though Anne Carson's poetry is shot through with the myths and images of the classical world, that ancient light helps illuminate contemporary situations and concerns. A classics professor at McGill University in Montreal, Carson has arrived in a surprisingly short time as one of Canada's finest poets. More than that, her exquisite, intelligent, highly original poems put her in the first rank of world poets. In The Beauty of the Husband ..." |
 | | Economy of the Unlost(Updated) (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Martin Classical Lectures) by Anne Carson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-09175-4, ISBN: 0-691-09175-7 " The 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 poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of languag ..." |
 | | Men in the Off Hours(Reprint) by Anne Carson Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70756-8, ISBN: 0-375-70756-5 "Yes, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds--and minor poets. The major ones tend to operate in a trough-and-peak pattern, producing a dozen lesser works for every masterpiece. Still, Anne Carson pushes this tendency to extremes, and nowhere more markedly than in Men in the Off Hours, which contains some of the best and worst lyrics of her entire career. First, the good news: Nobody has written more acutely about perception ..." |
 | | Plainwater(Reprint) Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70842-8, ISBN: 0-375-70842-1 "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 literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offe ..." |
 | | Eros the Bittersweet(1st Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Anne Carson Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1998 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-188-8, ISBN: 1-56478-188-7 "Anne Carson has become one of the best-known poets of our time, but her first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was deeply rooted in her other life, as a scholar and professor of classics at McGill University. Eros the Bittersweet is a multi-layered essay that is in part an explication of the Greek philosophical concepts of "eros" and "agape" as they are found in 7th-century BC Greek poetry, but it's also a scintillating study of the way we u ..." |
 | | Electra(Updated) (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Anne Carson, Michael Shaw, Sophocles/Carson/Shaw, J.K.Rowling, August Sophocles Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-504960-2, ISBN: 0-19-504960-8 "Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introdu ..." |
 | | A Revelation Moving Beyond PTSD & Foster Care by Matthew P. Doughty, Anne Carson, Kristyna Zaharek Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 2018 by Rose Moore Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944636-04-3, ISBN: 1-944636-04-8 "In this riveting book, the author doesn't just tell you his story. Matthew P. Doughty journeys with the reader through a series of circumstances that landed him in foster care to no fault of his own, on the streets, and at one point led him straight to prison. He emphasizes the power of choice and its consequences while offering tangible solutions to help the reader overcome their past, while regaining control of the present, no matter ..." |
 | | Watch Keepers (Paperback Or Softback) by Anne Carson Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2017 by North Loop Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-63505-456-9, ISBN: 1-63505-456-7 "The book does not flinch from presenting personal dilemmas and difficult situations, but ultimately shows the reader that it is possible to transcend difficulties through positive actions with their peers, through the guidance of ..." |
 | | Vintage International Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-91127-3, ISBN: 1-101-91127-1 "Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition." |
 | | Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2315-4, ISBN: 1-4008-2315-3 "(Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) Anne Carson. Mallarm ́e, S. 1945. Oeuvres compl`etes. Paris. ———. 1977. The Poems. Trans. K. Bosley. ... Oxford. McLuhan, M. 1968. Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting. New York. McMahon, Meinecke, D. A. 1970. P. 1956. Uber ̈ Leonardo da Vinci: Treatise on Painting. Princeton. Paul Celan. Frankfurt. Meiss, M. 1960. Giotto and Asissi. New York. Meritt, B. D. 1936. “Gre ..." |
 | | Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind(1st Edition) Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Paperbook) by Kenneth Rexroth, Eliot Weinberger, Anne Carson, Nathanael West Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1836-8, ISBN: 0-8112-1836-8 "“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”―American Poetry ReviewMoss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. ―Ch’ien Ch’i This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own ti ..." |
 | | Vintage Contemporaries Men in the off Hours by Anne Carson 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-55787-2, ISBN: 0-307-55787-1 "In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens." |
 | | The Beauty of the Husband(1st Edition) (Cape Poetry) by Anne Carson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by Jonathan Cape Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-224-06130-8, ISBN: 0-224-06130-5 "In The Beauty of the Husband, subtitled "A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos", Ann Carson explores her ambiguous feelings toward a difficult but intriguing marriage. Each poem begins with a short quote from John Keats, whose idea that "beauty is truth" is the thread holding together a relationship with a man addicted to lying and philandering. A scoundrel ("He lied when it wasn't even convenient"), the husband is redeemed and forgiven almost ..." |
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