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Born 1950-06-21
Also known as Carson, Anne
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Anne Carson.
"Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it." "When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me." waited far too long to get to this. carson takes you to such unexpected plac…
A reader-curated list
A reader-curated list
*Eros the Bittersweet* belongs to an entirely different genre of literature. Or, it belongs to pre-genre literature, before modern taxonomies were foisted on us. There was once a time, I have read, that the terms "Greek Literature" and "Latin Literature" refe…
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of the…
