Anne Carson
Anne Carson ( born June 21, 1950 in Toronto ) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. They lived for several years in Montreal and taught from 1980-1987 at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University. In 1998 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was awarded in 2000 with the MacArthur Fellowship. She also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Life and work
Carson's training path was not straight. The fascination of classic literature that dominates her work, started in high school. She learned the world and know the language of ancient Greece and got out of her Latin teacher private lessons. She enrolled at St. Michael 's College at the University of Toronto a, left it but twice. Carson, unsettled by the constraints of the curriculum (especially a required course of Milton ), retired for a short time in the direction of graphic design back. They eventually returned to the University of Toronto, where she completed her BA made in 1974, in 1975, her M. A. and her Ph.D. in 1981. They also spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism at the University of St Andrews.
A professor of classics, with background in classical languages , comparative literature, anthropology, history, and advertising graphics, Carson brought ideas and themes from many areas in its letter. You referenced, modernized and often translated Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books until 2013, all of which mix the forms of poetry, essays, prose, criticism, translations, dramatic dialogue, fiction and non-fiction.
Carson was in the fall of 2007, Anna -Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. The Classic Stage Company, a New York-based theater company that produces three of Carson's translations: Aeschylus ' Agamemnon; Sophocles' Electra; and Euripides ' Orestes (as An Oresteia ), in the repertoire of the season 2008 /2009. She is respected poet -in-residence at New York University and was a judge for the year 2010 at the Griffin Poetry Prize.
She also participated at the Bush Theatre in the project Sixty Six (October 2011), for which she is a piece titled Jew: The Goat wrote at Midnight. The piece is based on the Epistle of Jude from the King James Bible. Once a year, teach Carson and her husband, Robert Currie, a class called Egocircus on the art of collaboration at New York University. On November 16, 2012 Carson received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto. Carson gave a series of " short talks ", or short - format poems on various topics, for example, about the Ph.D. Graduating class of 2012.
Publications (selection )
- Odi et Amo Ergo Sum ( 1986) PhD thesis, University of Toronto
- Eros the Bittersweet (1986 ) Princeton University Press
- Glass, Irony, and God (1992 ) New Directions Publishing Company
- Short Talks ( 1992) Brick Books
- Plain Water ( 1995) button
- Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) button
- Economy of the Unlost: Reading ' Simonides of Ceos ' with Paul Celan (1999) Princeton University Press
- Men in the Off Hours ( 2001) button
- Electra (translation ) (2001 ) Oxford
- The Beauty of the Husband ( 2001) button
- If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) button
- Wonder Water ( Alice Offshore ) ( volume two, Answer Scars, a collaboration with Roni Horn ) (2004 ) Steidl
- Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) button
- Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides ( translation ) (2006 ) New York Review Books Classics
- An Oresteia (Translation of Agamemnon, Electra, Orestes ). (2009) Faber and Faber
- NOX (2010) New Directions, including Catullus Catullus 101
- Antigonick (2012) New Directions
- "Red Doc > " (2013 ) button, a direct continuation of her first poetic novel Autobiography of Red