Anne Carson is one of the few poets today working with a complete frame of classical reference. With the curiously titled Red Doc>, she has just reprised the Herculean cast of her celebrated poetry ...

“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet”: Thus begins Anne Carson’s 1998 Autobiography of Red, a book by one of the best-known poets of our century inspired by ...

Carson is one of the most famous poets writing in English; her many rabid fans await her new books with eager anticipation. A classicist by training, Carson has found, over a career spanning three ...

You don't read poetry. That's fine. Nobody does anymore. I'm not going to make you feel bad about that. But if there is one book I've pressed on more people in the past decade, it is Anne Carson's ...

is a sequel to one of my favourite books of all time, The Autobiography of Red, which is a novel in poetry, or a poetic novel, that retells one of the myths of Herakles. The two main characters in ...

Poet and classicist Anne Carson's last book, "Nox," was a beautiful accordion-fold facsimile of a scrapbook that she put together after her brother died, in order to make sense of his life and of ...

Dreams don’t lend themselves to paraphrase. What generally survives into waking are disconnected bits that seem to have no coherent relation to each other; it’s the dream that connects them. The same ...

Dave Ritter plays keyboards and sings with Juno Award-winning band The Strumbellas. He's also the self-described book geek of the band, and right now he's reading Red Doc> by Anne Carson. He told The ...

Red Doc is a sequel of sorts to Anne Carson’s celebrated Autobiography of Red, in which the Canadian-born poet and classics scholar brought characters from Greek legend — notably the hero Herakles and ...