Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. 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. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.
"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag "Carson is nothing less than brilliant-unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties." -- Publishers Weekly "Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity." -- Richard Bernstein - The New York Times "Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful." -- The New Yorker "The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost." -- The Times Literary Supplement "It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late." -- Judith Butler - Public Books "Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing-she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version." -- The Guardian " A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel. " -- Slate "Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature." -- The Rumpus "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob "Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in Antigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you." -- Full Stop "Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment." -- The New Inquiry "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob
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