Anne Carson

Anne Carson 以古希臘神話為起點，將長著翅膀的紅色怪物 Geryon 帶入現代世界，寫成一部融合詩歌、愛情與成長經驗的長篇敘事詩。童年時受到哥哥欺負的 Geryon，在攝影中找到屬於自己的空間。後來，他深深愛上金髮青年 Herakles，卻在感情最濃烈時遭到拋棄。Geryon 再次退回相機後方，透過鏡頭觀察世界，也慢慢理解自己與眾不同的身體和身分。然而，Herakles 的突然歸來，再度打亂他的生活。本書以簡潔而富有層次的文字，描寫愛情、孤獨與自我認同。詩人 Ocean Vuong 稱讚本書令人全神貫注，Alice Munro 也對其獨特而令人不安的文字留下深刻印象。● 古希臘神話的現代改寫，結合敘事詩與當代成長故事 ● 以 Geryon 的愛情與攝影經驗為主軸，描寫性別、身分與自我認同 ● 獲 Ocean Vuong、Alice Munro 等作家好評，兼具詩歌的音樂性與小說的敘事魅力WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThis is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is a queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak of infatuation. So Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, fascinated by his wings, his redness and the fantastic accident of who he is. But all is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herak

2026年諾貝爾文學獎得主 Anne Carson 睽違八年推出的原創作品，並榮獲美國國家書評人協會獎詩歌獎。本書收錄25篇風格獨特的詩性散文，題材從 Joseph Conrad、Flaubert、Sokrates 等文學與哲學人物，延伸至關達那摩、貧窮、雪、法醫學，以及作者的父親、戀人與日常生活。這些篇章彼此沒有直接關聯，正如作者所說，這也是書名中「Wrong」的由來。本書以作者親自設計、繪圖與註記的原稿形式出版，保留文字與手繪圖像交錯的特色。部分篇章曾刊載於《The New Yorker》與《The Paris Review》。《Daily Telegraph》形容本書讀來輕鬆流暢，甚至帶著難得的趣味。● 2026年諾貝爾文學獎得主 Anne Carson 作品，榮獲美國國家書評人協會獎詩歌獎 ● 收錄25篇詩性散文，題材橫跨文學、哲學、歷史與個人生活 ● 保留作者手繪與註記的原稿設計，呈現文字與視覺創作的獨特風格Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years.Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY'Effortlessly readable and – a word critics don’t often use about her – fun' – DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' – TEJU COLEAs with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and jou

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature''Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson''s depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.'' Lit HubH of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Herakles") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome."I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape,"

From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form. Anne

With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text.Ann

Poetry. Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions o

Anne Carson's take on Albertine, Marcel Proust's famous love interest

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 thei

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn 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 his friend and lover ‘Sad' (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G's mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful picaresque verse invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.

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 thei

A signed, limited edition of 100 copies: 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."

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."

Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantal

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn 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 turns exhilarating and bewildering, lucid and hermetic, Anne Carson is a maverick with a thrilling range of skills. As Charles Simic says, ''Carson takes risks, subverts literary conventions, and plays havoc with our expectations. She is a wonder: an unconventional, often difficult poet who has a huge following among today''s readers of poetry and whose work has been honoured with our most prestigious literar

Winner of the Noble Prize for Literature''A superb version . . . subtle, beautiful, precise, moving'' THE TIMESThe definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world''s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death - all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete - the rest are fragments.In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho''s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time - allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written.With her singular style and extensive translator''s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho''s reflections on love and

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic i

The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading and discussion of the work of Anne Carson, whom M

'An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth--and with the ongoing resonance--of a great novel.' --Elle The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSince 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 ''tangos'' of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson''s own unique sensibility. The unnamed narrator - sometimes ''I'', sometimes ''the wife'' - speaks of the man she calls only ''the husband'', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these o

'One of the most innovative poets writing today.' -- Seattle Weekly The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance yo

A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings," "Short Talks," "Canicula di Anna," "The Life of Towns," and "The

'This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing.' --Alice Munro The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading and discussion of the work of Anne Carson, whom Michael Ondaatje praised as 'the most exciting poet writing in English today.' Carson is a winner of the prestigious MacArthur fellowship, and has been the recipient of much admiration in the literary world. She is credited with the invention of an entirely new kind of poetry, fusing free verse with prose passages, using pastiche to startling effect, combining searing emotion with austere intellect. Interspersing her own words with quotes and references to sources that range from classical Greek literature, St. Augustine, the Bible, and the Tao to Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Carson constructs an astonishing art that is able to arouse

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn 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 and irrevocably shattered by Herakles'' return. Running throughout is Geryon''s fascination with his wings, the colour red, and the fantastic accident of who he is. Autobiography of Red is a deceptively simple narrative layered with currents of meaning, emotion, and the truth about what it''s like to be red. It is a powerful and unsettling story that moves, disturbs, and delights.

Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAnne 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 to walking backwards; the brilliant long poem ''The Glass Essay'' deals with the end of a contemporary love affair, but is haunted by the Brontë sisters. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes with an intensity and an integrity that is transfiguring.

Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks," "essays," or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable c

Anne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended con

A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra, and Euripides’ Orestes—giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother’s revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra’s actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father’s death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes, driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family, and Elektra are condemned to death by the people of Argos, and must justify their actions—signaling a call to change in society, a shift from the capricious governing of the gods to the rule of manmade law. Carson’s accomplished rendering combines elements of contempora

A definitive new translation of the Greek classic.

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review

Now in paperback.Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down