ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
“An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the
emotional depth–and with the ongoing resonance–of a great
novel.”–Elle
“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed
marriage.... Her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike
light.”–The New York Times
“Her best book.... Her poetry’s form and sensibility are quite
unlike anything else.”–The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
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