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Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
42.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry S.
The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. 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. This is an epic poem.
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet 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 ...Show more
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has ...Show more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Presented with the Greek on facing pages, her verses appear here as if on the ragged ...Show more
Nox by Anne Carson
82.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 Catullus for his brother who died in the Troad. Nox is a work of poet ...Show more
Removing the Kimono by Anne M. Carson
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The central heart of the book is an extended mediation on the loss of Anne's husband - poems both deeply personal and universal. They are held by two other sections which explore her relationship with and place within the natural world, particularly drawing on the theme of regeneration after disaster. A ...Show more
Writing on the Wall - Muse Poetica Dedicates This Poem to the Ending of Slavery Through the Work of Anti Slavery Australia by Anne M. Carson (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
A chapbook published by Mark Time Books and dedicated and donated to the work of Anti Slavery Australia as a fundraiser to help in ending slavery. It comprises two essays (by Professor Jennifer Burn and Anne M Carson) and an epic poem written by Anne M Carson for a modern audience. It draws on two and h ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is a celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routi ...Show more
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