Anne Carson is one of North America's most successful poets, as well as being an essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. She calls herself a 'maker' in the ancient Greek sense. Originally from Canada, Carson has taught at Princeton University and Bard College. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work can be, famously, difficult to understand and has produced many, sometimes-contradictory...