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Carson reminds us that poeticizing in this broader philosophical sense and in the narrow sense of the poetic have always been related.

Carson reminds us that poeticizing in this broader philosophical sense and in the narrow sense of the poetic have always been related.

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Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator. Since her success of 2001, Carson has gone on to publish a volume of poetry, essays and opera, Decreation (2005). Carson has gained both critical accolades and a wide readership over the course of her unclassifiable publishing career.

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A life in writing: Anne Carson's poems might be wilfully obscure and difficult, but their compelling storytelling quality has .

A life in writing: Anne Carson's poems might be wilfully obscure and difficult, but their compelling storytelling quality has earned her both critical and commercial success. The subtitle of her latest volume, Decreation, is Poetry, Essays, Opera, and the one before that, The Beauty of the Husband, was described on the dust-jacket as "a fictional essay in 29 tangos". This seemed to cause pain in particular to a group of male poets from Canada, Carson's birthplace, and they convened on the internet to decry her "pretentiousness".

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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 varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.

Simone Weil describes 'decreation' as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self

Simone Weil describes '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 luminescence and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telamachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera, libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, and rapture. She is a wonder' - Charles Simic.

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.

Anne Carson is an inspiration to us all. She is that rarest of entities, a writer as fearless as she is gifted, and Autobiography of Red is that rarest of books, one that satisfies emotionally, aesthetically, and intellectually. Nox. An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (translation). Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation). If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translation). The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos