I don’t always love Anne Carson’s work. Autobiography of Red is one of my favorite books of contemporary poetry (can we call it that?) but Red Doc> was too much for me. But even when I don’t like an individual work, I love what I see to be her life’s project — connecting the classical world with the contemporary. Using the very old to build something very new. There is no one else out there like her. Here’s my idiosyncratic bibliography of her work and related resources.*
Books:
Eros the Bittersweet (1986) Princeton University Press
Glass, Irony, and God (1992) New Directions Publishing Company
Short Talks (1992) Brick Books
Plainwater (1995) Knopf
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) Knopf
Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Ceos with Paul Celan (1999) Princeton University Press
Men in the Off Hours (2001) Knopf
Electra (translation) (2001) Oxford
The Beauty of the Husband (2001) Knopf
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) Knopf
Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) (volume two, Answer Scars, a collaboration with Roni Horn) (2004) Steidl
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) Knopf
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation) (2006) New York Review Books Classics
An Oresteia (Translation of Agamemnon, Elektra, Orestes.) (2009) Faber and Faber
NOX (2010) New Directions, incorporating Catullus 101 of Catullus
Antigonick (2012) New Directions
Iphigenia among the Taurians (translation) (2014) University of Chicago Press
Chapbooks:
The Albertine Workout (2014) New Directions
Other:
Odi et Amo Ergo Sum (1986) PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto
About Carson:
The Inscrutible Brilliance of Anne Carson, Sam Anderson — A clever, and short, profile of Carson
Anne Carson
As always, if I’ve read the book, the link goes to my review. If not, it goes to amazon or another source. Theoretically, if enough people purchase a book from one of these links, I receive a small amount of money. This rarely happens.
