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.
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.
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.
husband fighting law
DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
wind clean
he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
smart blindness very-smart
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more