Anne Carson

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 the University of Michigan. Reticent about her private life, the biography published in current editions of her books reads, simply, "Anne Carson lives in Canada."

A professor of the classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. She has published ten books as of 2006, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, fiction, and non-fiction.

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Odi et Amo Ergo Sum, PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1986.

Eros the Bittersweet (1986) Princeton University Press
Glass, Irony, and God (1992) New Directions Publishing Company
Short Talks (1992) Knopf
Plainwater (1995) Knopf
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) Knopf
Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Ceos with Paul Celan (1999) Princeton University Press
Men in the Off Hours (2001) Knopf
The Beauty of the Husband (2002) Knopf
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) Knopf
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) Knopf
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation) (2006) New York Review Books Classics

Ian Rae, University of British Columbia. "Carson, Anne." The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 December 2001. The Literary Dictionary Company. 8 December 2005.fr:Anne Carson