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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
		She is best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, all published between 1940 and 1946.
		Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, McCullers was the daughter of Lamar Smith,
		Lula Carson, as she was called until age fourteen, attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at sixteen.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-557 (1707 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Anne Carson
		Carson tells what might be seen as a pedestrian love story: a marriage, a divorce, a sad life left behind.
		The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/carson (0 words)

	PoetryReviews.ca » Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson
		Anne Carson is often called avant-garde because of her generic innovations and her experiments with prosody and form.
		And although Carson keeps her personal feelings on a tight leash, one always senses from the passion of the writing that the subjects of these essays are of urgent spiritual and aesthetic significance to the writer.
		Carson is a classical scholar with the soul of a Romantic, and she writes with the passion of a master teacher, inciting, enflaming her students to experience the text with both heart and mind.
	poetryreviews.ca /2006/10/04/decreation-poetry-essays-opera-by-anne-carson (4571 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Anne Carson
		Anne Carson burst onto the international poetry scene in 1987 when she published the long poem “Kinds of Water” in Grand Street, an American magazine devoted to poetry, art and short fiction.
		Carson has also pressured her current publisher, Knopf, to remove all promotional blurbs and quotations from the jacket covers of her books.
		Initially, however, Carson was frustrated with the compulsory courses required to complete an undergraduate arts degree – in particular the study of Milton – and she dropped out after first year.
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	Ducts.org: Trumpet Fiction
		Born and raised in Hunterdon County, NJ, near the town of Flemington, Anne transplanted her homegrown love of rock and folk music to the hot bed of jazz and alternative pop of New York City in 1988.
		Anne performed steadily at live shows and in the studio throughout the New York area until she realized the time was ripe to record her own CD, which she promptly set out to do.
		Anne continues to live and work in New York City.
	www.ducts.org /06_05/html/trumpetfiction.htm (0 words)

	Jacket # 11 - Geraldine McKenzie - reviews Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
		Carson has kept the wings but discarded the three headed aspect, making it plain that Geryon is a monster whilst investigating concepts of monstrosity and difference.
		Carson notes "there are several different ways to be" and allies herself with Stesichorus in a concern for "inner" things as opposed to the heroic vision of Homer (references to blindness and seeing are frequent).
		Carson even employs the tactic of introducing a minor character simply to have a conversation with the protagonist about thematic matters, an unconvincing use of narrative and repeated three times.
	jacketmagazine.com /11/mckenzie-on-carson.html (1333 words)

	Anne Carson Summary
		Much the same can be said of Anne Carson, who in her poetry and essays asks questions about gender, desire, anger, self, and language t...
		Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at McGill University and at the University of Michigan.
		Green asserts that Carson's translation lacks an ear for the lyric meters of Sappho's verse, causing the volume to lose the essence of Sappho's poetry.
	www.bookrags.com /Anne_Carson (245 words)

	Anne Carson Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Much the same can be said of Anne Carson, who in her poetry and essays asks questions about gender, desire, anger, self, and language that allow the reader to see the world afresh.
		She points to a new direction for postmodernism, one that is unafraid of turning back to the discussion of the metaphysical, although not a metaphysics of the logo-centric variety--that is, a metaphysics with rationality at its center.
		Carson sees her work as "an irritant." She questions the accepted convention of sophrosyne (self-control) at the base of Western civilization and the self it engendered, a self whose civil behavior and speech create edge.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/anne-carson-dlb (193 words)

	The Erotic Poetics of Anne Carson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carson's use of Greek as a resource ranges from her translations and invocations of her literary predecessors to evocations of the subtleties of individual words.
		Carson carves her 'Mimnermos' (which appears to be a formal prototype of Autobiography of Red) from the mysteries of unsatisfied curiosity.
		Carson's preface to Eros the Bittersweet recalls this wide definition of desire by referring to the man in Kafka's 'The Top,' who, according to Carson, 'has become a philosopher (that is, one whose profession is to delight in understanding) in order to furnish himself with pretexts for running after tops' (Eros, xii).
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	Anne Carson
		Carson, 53, described the play in her typically elliptical way, "Euripides had his Quentin Tarantino days." She is standing in her austere living room, which has almost no furniture.
		Carson was born in Ontario, and her work evokes a lonely childhood: "My mother's kitchen is dark and small but out the window/there is the moor, paralyzed with ice./It extends as far as the eye can see/over flat miles to a solid unlit white sky."
		Carson lives by herself most of the time, but says she does not mind loneliness: "Loneliness is not an important form of suffering," Ms.
	www.thelwordonline.com /anne_carson.shtml (1037 words)

	Poets and Genre-Benders : Mark Doty as Essayist and Anne Carson as "Novelist" : Jim Schley
		Carson's lines are likewise cadenced short and long, made of snatches of conversations, conveying relationships that are sinuous, clasping and releasing.
		Repeatedly Anne Carson fashions a bridge between seemingly unreconcilable varieties of poetry, on the one hand a style that calls constant attention to its agitated surface, and on the other plain narrative, anecdotal and verging on melodrama.
		By demanding more of her readers' attention and intuition, Carson takes us far deeper into the experience of others than is possible with poems that are accessible in more obvious ways.
	www.solarnet.org /JS/opi/DotyCarson.htm (761 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
		As a poet and classicist, Carson (who is director of graduate studies in classics at McGill University in Montreal) seems like the perfect interpolator of the ancient Greek poet's lyrics, which exist only as fragments of papyruses and parts of poems used as examples in (slightly less) ancient Greek grammars and treatises.
		Carson's ferocious innovations as a poet -- she is the author of the exhilarating Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse -- make the match with the famously passionate Greek poet particularly tantalizing.
		Carson imparts drama and verve to many of the otherwise anorectic fragments in her zippy notes on Sapphic scholarship, such as this one on No. 46: "This fragment is cited by Herodian in his treatise On Anomalous Words because it contains a perky word for 'cushion.'"
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:156644 (723 words)

	Why The L Word gives props to Anne Carson. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
		Carson marshals examples from Sappho, Plato, and lesser-known Greek poets, deftly explicating their vision of erotic love as temporary, contingent, and characterized by a thrilling sensation of lack.
		Then, in the mid-'90s, Carson (in her 40s) published two utterly assured books of poetry in quick succession—Plainwater and Glass, Irony and God—and arrived like Athena full-born on the scene of English-language poetry, intriguing readers with her riffs on television and historical esoterica.
		In her most autobiographical poems, one gradually realizes, Carson is interested in her own erotic life primarily as a way of accessing the sibylline recesses of the human mind— "The Glass Essay" is as much a reflection on the Romantic anger of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights as it is on the poet's loss.
	www.slate.com /id/2095317 (1772 words)

	Amazon.de: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry: English Books: Anne Carson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Carson achieves a surreal, perplexing brilliance in "Canicula di Anna," a 53-section poem partially set in the paintings of the 16th-century artist Perugino.
		Carson's poetry and prose defy categorization as much as they blur the boundaries of their own forms.
		Carson, a professor of ancient Greek and Latin, incorporates classical languages and a mythological sensibility in surprising ways throughout her work.
	www.amazon.de /Plainwater-Essays-Poetry-Anne-Carson/dp/0375708421 (513 words)

	Anne Carson
		Anne Carson (born 1950-) is a Canadian poet and professor of history at McGill University.
		She has background in the classics and classical languages, as well as anthropology.
		At first everything inside is so saturated with strangeness it is hard to breathe -- but look now: already it is drying in from the edges like rainwater and he will in fact never after be able to recover that blankness in which he saw it first, the surgery of the first look.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anne_Carson.html (458 words)

	Amazon.ca: Autobiography of Red: Books: Anne Carson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And in Carson's version, the theft of the heart may be quite a bit worse than outright murder, for, rather than dying outright, Geryon dies a little each day and his suffering is thus prolonged and made all the more difficult to endure.
		Anne Carson depicts the poignant autobiography of Geryon.
		Carson is not afraid to address the deepest philosophical issues a few stanzas away from a description of the toddler Red playing with his "white trash" mother.
	www.amazon.ca /Autobiography-Red-Anne-Carson/dp/0676972659 (1579 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Decreation by Anne Carson
		Carson attempts [this task] with great tenderness, framing the undoing as a work of love that compels one to forsake oneself in order to be something more–truer, more luminous, and also more transient.
		Carson is at her electrifying best when she pairs incisive essays with piercing poems to explore the magical properties of seep, to explicate the sublime.
		Carson’s inquiry into the paradoxical ‘decreation’ of the self in the quest for the divine exemplifies her gift for joining erudition with feeling, insight with wit, and a sense of cosmic continuity with personal liberation.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400043491 (1226 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Anne Carson
		She has been called "the most interesting poet writing in English" by more than one peer, yet her books are usually a mixture of things that look like poems, that look like essays (footnotes and all), and that look like things you've never quite seen before.
		Sometimes Carson writes frankly and emotionally about entirely personal matters like the breakup of a relationship or the death of her mother.
		That passage might make you think that Anne Carson's path through her work has been essentially a spiritual journey, but that category, too, fails to fit.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0511.annecarson-review.html (484 words)

	Anne Carson \| Authors \| Random House
		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, and writing in forms as...
		Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today.
		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...
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	Men in the Off Hours, by Anne Carson -- Avatar Review Book Reviews
		Carson is a poet who relies on fragments: personal, classical (her specialty), and popular.
		Carson's hip disdain for her own erudition comes across glaringly as an act meant to bring the house down.
		But with Carson's writing there is always wit, and usually, underneath the assembled fragments, you detect her passionate heart, which makes it easy to forgive her various sins.
	avatarreview.net /AV2/carson.htm (1379 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Anne Carson
		A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature.
		What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.
		"Anne Carson is a rare talent--brilliant and full of wit, passionate and also deeply moving."--Michael Ondaatje
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/carson.html (0 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Anne Carson
		Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), and the author of Eros the Bittersweet (1998).
		Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award.
		Carson is was the Director of Graduate Studies in Classics at McGill University and now teaches Classics, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Michigan.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/317 (0 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: ‘Decreation’ Offers Slice of Anne Carson
		Acquaintance with her collage of sources is not a prerequisite for appreciating her poetry, although familiarity with literary form enriches the experience.
		Driven by the loss of her mother in 1997 and her brother in 2000, Carson’s book is in the tradition of Robert Lowell’s “Life Studies” (1959).
		However intrepid the search for and the destruction of self, Carson’s writing remains circuitous, employing the language of quotation and experiment to arrive at her own meaning.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=509099 (418 words)

	Montreal Writers: A Gallery of Montreal Writers - Portraits by Terence Byrnes
		Anne Carson is a poet, an essayist, and a classicist.
		Michael Ondaaje has written that Anne Carson is the "most exciting poet writing in English today." Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Random House Canada 1998) won the 1998 QSPELL Prize for Poetry.
		Plainwater (Vintage Canada), a collection of Carson’s essays and poetry published in 1995, was reissued in 2000.
	www.vehiculepress.com /montreal/gallery/carson.html (125 words)

	Kate Burton, David Strathairn, Kathryn Walker in Anne Carson's Hecuba
		Anne Carson is a Canadian poet and classicist who became the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2002.
		A note about Anne Carson and the 92nd Street Y: Carson did her translation of Sophokles' Elektra while she was poet-in-residence at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in 1987, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
		Carson read her own poems at the 92nd Street Y with poet Jorie Graham in 1997 as part of The Tenth Muse, a series that pairs established poets with emerging poets.
	www.92y.org /content/anne_carson_hecuba.asp (1730 words)

	ANNE CARSON (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carson is the most elusive, reflective, intriguing new poet I have read all year.
		And since her work invokes Apollo Loxias (the "god of few words and concise expression") and marries him to the risky, unsettling rhythms of ololyga (a "disorderly female sound" associated "with wild space, with savagery and the supernatural"), she's a latter-day Dickinson, too.
		Carson's "Short Talks," for example, are a set of one-paragraph prose poems that take the common carbon of the essay and squeeze it into diamond.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/12-95/ANNE_CARSON.html (977 words)

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