Dreams don’t lend themselves to paraphrase. What generally survives into waking are disconnected bits that seem to have no coherent relation to each other; it’s the dream that connects them. The same ...

“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet”: Thus begins Anne Carson’s 1998 Autobiography of Red, a book by one of the best-known poets of our century inspired by ...

Carson is one of the most famous poets writing in English; her many rabid fans await her new books with eager anticipation. A classicist by training, Carson has found, over a career spanning three ...

is a sequel to one of my favourite books of all time, The Autobiography of Red, which is a novel in poetry, or a poetic novel, that retells one of the myths of Herakles. The two main characters in ...

You don't read poetry. That's fine. Nobody does anymore. I'm not going to make you feel bad about that. But if there is one book I've pressed on more people in the past decade, it is Anne Carson's ...

red doc> by Anne Carson; Knopf, 164 pages ($24.95). You won’t find the actual color red on the hardcover dustflaps of either “red doc>” or “Autobiography of Red,” the book to which “red doc>” is ...

Poet and classicist Anne Carson's last book, "Nox," was a beautiful accordion-fold facsimile of a scrapbook that she put together after her brother died, in order to make sense of his life and of ...

Anne Carson is one of the few poets today working with a complete frame of classical reference. With the curiously titled Red Doc>, she has just reprised the Herculean cast of her celebrated poetry ...

Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, a novel in verse, was published more than a decade ago and has a loyal following. Reviewer Rosecrans Baldwin... Monsters, Myths And Poetic License In Anne Carson's ...

Red Doc is a sequel of sorts to Anne Carson’s celebrated Autobiography of Red, in which the Canadian-born poet and classics scholar brought characters from Greek legend — notably the hero Herakles and ...

Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge, and her poetry novels Autobiography of Red and the follow-up, Red Doc>.