Nox
Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus &quo...
Norma Jeane Baker av Troja
Norma Jeane Baker av Troja är en meditation över skönhetens destruktiva kraft. Med utgångspunkt i Euripides drama Helena väver Anne Carson samman två berömda kvinnogestalter: Helena, för vars skull Trojanska kriget utkämpades, och Norma J...
Eros the Bittersweet
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on ...
Glass, Irony and God
Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told i...
Men in the Off Hours
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final prose poem, she meditates movingly on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality and its fearless wit and sensuality, Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.
Plainwater
A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from 'Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings,' 'Short Talks,' 'Canicula di Anna,' 'The Life of Towns,' and 'The Anthropology of Water.' Reprint.
Red Doc>
**New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013** **GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Economy of the Unlost
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy....
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jean...
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
A remarkable compilation of literary writings by the critically acclaimed author of Autobiography of Red features an array of original poetry, essays, a screenplay, and a libretto that explores the nature and mechanics of the human act of decreation as revealed in the lives of Sappho, Marguerite Porete, Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf, and her own relationship with her mother. Reprint.
Bakkhai
Bakkhai
Gender of Sound
History is filled with unacceptable noises: high pitch, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes fa...
Short Talks: Brick Books Classics 1
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a 'Short Talk on Afterwords' by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works. The youth at night would have himself driven around the scream. It lay in the middle of the city gazing back at him with its heat and rosepools of flesh. Terrific lava shone on his soul. He would ride and stare. --'Short Talk on the Youth at Night'
If Not, Winter: The Complete Fragments Of Sappho
'A superb version . . . subtle, beautiful, precise, moving' THE TIMES The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Not much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships...
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy-iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thri...
Eros the Bittersweet
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginn...
Autobiography of Red
'This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing.' --Alice Munro The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group...
H of H Playbook
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Antigonick
Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presen...
Wrong Norma
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST¿FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five st...
Trojan Women
This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visual a...
H of H Playbook
'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit Hub H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in...
Wrong Norma
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY 'Effortlessly readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I'm a big fan... She pin...
Glass And God
Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking...
Autobiography of Red
In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon...
Beauty Of The Husband
Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography...
Decreation
In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of i...
Nay Rather
Sylph Editions' Cahiers series features some of the most venerable names in literature and publishing as they embark on unique explorations in writing and translation. This newest installment unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carso...
Det Oförlorades Ekonomi- Simonides Från Keos Läst Med Paul Celan
Vad har den antike grekiske poeten Simonides, känd för att ha uppfunnit minneskonsten och för att varit först med att ta betalt för poesi, att göra med Paul Celan, den tyska efterkrigslitteraturens ordkarge mästarpoet? Svaret heter Det oförlorades ekonomi, den kanadensiska språkkonstnären, antikforskaren, översättaren med mera Anne Carsons kanske allra märkligaste ? men också centrala ? bok, som nu ges ut i översättning av Niklas Haga och Rebecka Kärde. Med utgångspunkt i en enda preposition, grekiskans pros, och en fråga, vad går egentligen förlorat när vi slösar med orden?, sätter sig Carson på tankevindlande kollisionskurs med de två poeternas liv och verk och med vad som eventuellt kunde kallas poesins predikament. Anne Carsons egensinniga texter har fått fäste i Sverige tack vare översättningar av hennes största publikframgångar, de ?prosalyriska? experimenten Röd självbiografi, Makens skönhet och nu senast Röd doc>. I och med Det oförlorades ekonomi introduceras en ny sida av författarskapet för svensk publik, en sida som är avgjort mer akademisk och lärd, men inte ett jota mindre carsonsk.
Autobiography Of Red
Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak of infatuation. So Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, fascinated by his wings, his redness and the fantastic accident of who he is. But all is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. Autobiography of Red is a deceptively simple narrative filled with currents of meaning, emotion, and the truth about what it's like to be red. An extraordinary, modern epic poem - moving, disturbing and delightful.
Röd doc>
I Röd självbiografi (Panache 2009) berättade Anne Carson om den unge pojken Geryon – ett rött bevingat monster – och hans olyckliga kärlek till den vackre Herakles, som krossar hans hjärta. Utifrån den antika myten skapade hon en modern diktberättelse om begärets irrvägar, om förtärande kärlek och vulkaniska eruptioner. Röd doc> är en fristående fortsättning på den berättelsen, fast efter myten, när gestalterna – med nya namn – driver runt utan riktning. Geryon – G – är äldre och for
Bakkhai
Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics....
Antigone
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she pla...
The Trojan Women - A Comic
Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno an...
Albertineutredningen
Vad gör man när man avslutat På spaning efter den tid som flytt och hamnat i den öken som breder ut sig Efter Proust? Man kan till exempel ta notis om Albertine, den kvinna med vilken romanens manliga berättarjag har sitt mest ingående förhållande. Albertine nämns pa 807 sidor i Prousts verk och ägnar 19 % av sin tid i det åt att sova. Hon hamnar i särskilt fokus i bok 5, Den fångna en bok som tidspressade läsare tryggt kan slopa fullständigt, enligt en ledande expert på Proust. Anne Carson är född i Kanada och lever på att undervisa i antik grekiska. Detta är hennes anteckningar efter Proust, med appendix.
Makens skönhet : en fiktiv essä i 29 tangos
Makens skönhet – en fiktiv essä i 29 tangos – är en poetisk berättelse om ett äktenskap. Utifrån den romantiske poeten John Keats tanke att ”det sköna är det sanna” tecknar Anne Carson en kärlekshistoria som börjar tidigt, på en latinlektion i skolan, och som verkar fortsätta livet ut, även efter den oundvikliga skilsmässan. Den vackre maken, som ständigt ljuger och bedrar, hur rimmar han med Keats idé? Och kärleken till honom, kan den förlåta allt? Anne Carsons världs
Røds selvbiografi
Anne Carsons mesterværk Autobiography of Red udkom for første gang på dansk i 2001. Nu har digterne Niels Frank og Pejk Malinovski revideret deres oversættelse, og bogen har fået et nyt omslag med forfatterens eget maleri. Røds selvbiografi er en roman på vers, der tager udgangspunkt i myterne om det røde monster Geryon og Herakles’ 12. Arbejder. Niels Frank, f. 1963 er digter, romanforfatter og oversætter. Pejk Malinovski, f. 1976 er digter, oversætter, redaktør og dokumentarist.
Lediga Män
Broder vin mjölk honung blommor.Blommor mjölk honung broder vin.Hur lång tid tar det för ljudet att dö ut?I sin tredje diktsamling, Lediga män, som utkom i original år 2000, visar Anne Carson upp hela sin litterära bredd: hon samläser Thukydides och Virginia Woolf, porträtterar med stor inlevelse föregångare som Achmatova, Artaud och Tolstoj, busöversätter Catullus och skriver dikter av intensivt personlig karaktär. I en avslutande essä analyserar hon uppslagsrikt grekernas syn på den kvinnliga befläckelsens fenomenologi.Volymen har översatts av Lars-Håkan Svensson som tidigare bland annat har översatt grekisk poesi och dramatik.