Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carsonis 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 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 June 1950
CountryCanada
fear-of-death
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
epic audience
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
time moving mean
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
eels two tanks
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
gertrude poet difficult
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
somewhere-else names greek
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
liars lying mean
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
time made abstraction
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
verbs incompleteness
Consider incompleteness as a verb.