Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason is in the sweat of suffering, in the erotic, bleeding pain that emanates from her lines. The tale of Hercules who kills the monster Geryon and steals his red cattle, in her version becomes the story of a doomed love affair between two boys ( Autobiography of Red) the going-round-in-circles of a fierce marital row is predicted with a quote from Parmenides: ‘It is all one to me where I start – I’ll arrive there again soon enough’īut neither her subtle narrative skill, nor her strangely melodious verse can explain why, when the mind reads Anne Carson, the heart reads along. It is a part of her life and personality that carries over into her poetry, the inspiration and background for her literary work, consisting of essays ( Eros the Bittersweet, The Economy of the Unlost) and a mixture of essays and poetry ( Plainwater Glass, Irony and God).Īny associations of classical scholarship with stuffiness are quickly dispelled by Anne Carson’s talent for reviving the poetry and philosophy of the ancient Greeks and for making them part of our modern experience. ![]() Anne Carson has been teaching classical Greek literature at leading universities in Canada and the United States for the past twenty years. ![]()
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