CARSON ANNE

ΕΡΩΣ Ο ΓΛΥΚΟΠΙΚΡΟΣ
"Πρώτη η Σαπφώ αποκάλεσε τον έρωτα γλυκόπικρο. Κι όποιος έχει ερωτευτεί, δε θα διαφωνήσει μαζί της". Ο έρωτας είναι ένα παράδοξο. Κρύβει μια υπόσχεση απόλυτης ηδονής. Όμως βιώνεται σαν πόνος. Τον πόνο τον προκαλεί η απουσία. "Υπάρχει κανένας που να επιθύμησε ποτέ αυτό που δεν απουσιάζει; Κανένας. Σ' αυτό οι Έλληνες ήταν ξεκάθαροι. Κι επινόησαν τον έρωτα για να το εκφράσουν". Ο έρωτας είναι αγώνας. Μα ο αγώνας αυτός είναι μάταιος. Γιατί ο έρωτας είναι αναγκαστικά στραμμένος σε κάτι που απουσιάζει: με το που κατακτηθεί το ποθούμενο, η επιθυμ...
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(P/B) THE ALBERTINE WORKOUT
The Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's research on Albertine, the principal love interest of Marcel in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DECREATION
In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start? Anne Carson's Decreation starts with form - the undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, list, montage. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe. By turn...
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ΛΙΓΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ
ΛΙΓΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΗΔΟΝΙΣΜΟ Η ομορφιά με κάνει ανήμπορη. Δεν με νοιάζει πια το γιατί, το μόνο που θέλω είναι να φύγω. Όταν κοιτάζω την πόλη του Παρισιού λαχταράω να τυλίξω τα πόδια μου γύρω της. Όταν σε παρατηρώ να χορεύεις υπάρχει μια άκαρδη απεραντοσύνη που μοιάζει με ναυτικό σε γαλήνια θάλασσα. Επιθυμίες στρογγυλές σαν ροδάκινα ανθίζουν μέσα μου όλη νύχτα, δεν μαζεύω πια ό,τι πέφτει. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) "Το έργο της Ανν Κάρσον, έργο μεγάλου στοχαστικού βάθους, θεματικού εύρους και ρηξικέλευθων πειραματισμώ...
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(P/B) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED
In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly a...
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(H/B) NOX
Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years - a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out book in a box. Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of "Poem 101" by Catallus "for his brother who died in the Troad." Nox is a work of poetry, but arrives as a fascinating and unique physical object. Carson pasted old letters, family ...
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(P/B) IF NOT, WINTER
From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. Carson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that...
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(P/B) EROS THE BITTERSWEET
The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization, the book offers a fresh view: it was no accident that the poets who invented Eros were also the first readers and writers of the Western literate tradition. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) GLASS AND GOD
Anne Carson is the most original, most uniquely gifted poet to have appeared in the past decade. Her first full-length publication in Britain, Glass, Irony and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic and precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking backwards; the brilliant long poem 'The Glass Essay' deals with the end of a comtemporary love affair, but is haunted by the Bronte sisters. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes wi...
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(P/B) FLOAT
Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further still: exploring myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with - and pushing - the limits of language and form. Within this beautifully designed box, there are twelve individual booklets that can be read in any order: conjuring a mix of voices, time periods and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories 'maddeningly attractive' when o...
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(P/B) RED DOC >
A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed poetry best-seller Autobiography of Red ('Amazing' - Alice Munro) that takes its mythic boy-hero into the twenty-first century to tell a story all its own of love, loss, and the power of memory. Shortlisted for the 2013 T.S. Eliot Prize. In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called 'G', into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with...
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(P/B) THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND
Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tang...
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(P/B) IF I'M SCARED WE CAN'T WIN
The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment. "...And I was grown up, with your face on, heating spice after spice to smoke out the smell of books, to burn the taste buds off this bitten tongue, avoid ever speaking of you." - Emily Berry, 'Her Inheritance' "If you are not the free...
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(H/B) ANTIGONICK
Antigonick is a comic-book presentation of Sophokles' Antigone in a new translation by Anne Carson, with text blocks hand-inked on the page by Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie. On separate translucent vellum pages, the artist Bianca Stone has created stunning drawings to overlay the text. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles' luminous and ...
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(P/B) AN ORESTEIA

(P/B) EROS THE BITTERSWEET
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue...
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