Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre

by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Book Overview

Anne Carson's works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video and comics and collaborative performance. Carson's pathbreaking translations of Ancient Greek poetry and drama, as well as her scholarship on everything from Sappho to Celan, only continue to demonstrate the unique vision she has for what's possible for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472072536
• ISBN13: 9780472072538
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"