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Antigone by Anne Carson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Classics
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act ...Show more
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
$30.00 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
$38.00 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: An Essay by Anne Carson
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Category: Essays | 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
Float by Anne Carson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"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. W ...Show more
Glass and God by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry Ser.
'The most exciting poet writing in English today' - Michael OndaatjeAnne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice- vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
Nox by Anne Carson
$44.95 AUD
Category: Art
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
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Red Doc by Anne Carson
$37.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc"> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobe ...Show more
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