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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 fall into
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 presentation. T
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic. Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls
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 Jeane Baker
NEJ SNARERE forener canadiske Anne Carsons tre discipliner i ét værk, når essay, oversættelse og digt sammen formulerer en oversættelsespoetik. Undervejs taler Carson med skikkelser som Jeanne dArc, Homer, Francis Bacon og Friedrich Hölderlin i en forfølg
Albertine-øvelsen er en hybrid mellem digt og teori. Den handler om Marcels besættelsesagtige forelskelse i Albertine i På sporet af den tabte tid . ' "Den sjoveste og mest begavede introduktion til Proust" Politiken "Efterlader mig e
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
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALISTFOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling p
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 thrilling an
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. Beginning
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 wal
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's s
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 of Red
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 dont often use about her fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I'm a big fan..
Oven vande er en samling af individuelle performancetekster, digte, oversættelser, essays og småtekster, som er trykt hver for sig, men samlet i en boks.
Anne Carsons mesterværk Autobiographyof Red udkom for første gang på dansk i 2001. Nu har digterne Niels Frankog Pejk Malinovski revideret deres oversættelse, og bogen har fået et nytomslag med forfatterens eget maleri. Røds selvbiografi er en roman på ve
** 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 t
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 in the co
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
'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 relations
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funn
GLASESSAYET er et langdigt om et hjerte, der er gået i tusind stykker, hedevandringer, Emily Bronté, istapper, forbandelser, hængte hundehvalpe, en skør mor, en dement far og en ekskæreste, der spøger. Digtet eller essayet hører til blandt Anne Carsons
'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 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 ins
"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." -- The Economist Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- an undoing of self. In her first co
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged
H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and
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. She off
Skønhed er sandhed, og sandhed skønhed, skrev John Keats. I et prisvindende lyrisk essay, DEN SKØNNE ÆGTEMAND, spørger Anne Carson, om den britiske romantiker havde ret. Gennem 29 tangoer udfolder hun med spids humor, sarte sansninger og glasklar lyrisk p