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
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.
fear-of-death
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
running want bittersweet
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
running pain
Under the seams runs the pain.
tongue taste caught
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
stronger rupture return
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
doe helping help-me
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
time moving mean
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
groups kind tradition
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
eels two tanks
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
running dream rain
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
taken giving world
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
wall moving simple
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
gertrude poet difficult
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.