Anne Carson
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Men in the Off Hours
$15.00 Add to cartAnne 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 an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375707565
- Language: English
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Bakkhai
$14.95 Read moreAnne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended con… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0811227103
- Language: English
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Short Talks: Brick Books Classics 1
$20.00 Add to cartDeluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner’s first poetry collection. Includes new material.
On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1771313420
- Language: English
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H of H Playbook
$25.95 Read moreH 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 wh… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0811231232
- Language: English
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Red Doc>
$17.00 Add to cart**New York Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2013**
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles.
**GoodReads Reader’s Choice Award Winner**- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0307950670
- Language: English
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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
$19.00 Add to cart“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- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1400078903
- Language: English
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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
$11.95 Add to cartNorma 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 mille… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122936X
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet
$15.95 Add to cartSelected 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 classic
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973862
- Language: English
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An Oresteia
$19.00 Add to cartIn An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Orestes. After the murder
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 086547916X
- Language: English
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708421
- Language: English
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
$16.95 Add to cartThe 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 th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 19, 2002
- ISBN10: 0375707573
- Language: English
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Antigonick
$12.95 Add to cartAnne 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 h… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 51
- Publish Date: May 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0811222926
- Language: English
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Wrong Norma
$17.95 Add to cartPublished here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris R… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0811230341
- Language: English
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Nox
$55.00 Add to cartNox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens … [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 27, 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218708
- Language: English
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Glass, Irony and God
$16.95 Add to cartKnown 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 a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: November 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0811213021
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
$16.95 Add to cartNamed 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 Bi- Series: Princeton Classics #130
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247935
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
$23.33 Read moreThe 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 i… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 037570129X
- Language: English
