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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson |Michael Wood
‘This is the Nile and I’m a liar.’ These are the opening words of an amazing play by Anne Carson, first performed in 2019. The statement is in one sense correct. The speaker is nowhere near Egypt and about three thousand years too late for the Trojan War. J.L. Austin listed being ‘said by an actor on the stage’ as one of the ways in which an utterance might be ‘hollow or void’, and for a moment Carson’s speaker takes exactly this line. The voice continues:Those are both true. Are you confused yet?
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson
So, your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway.
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May 29, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson
JulioJulio likes to ask a good question in a bad way. Do most of your students fall in love with you? He is a recovering addict but he does not see himself as a statistic, here I am quoting. He describes his novel, which is about the 65th Infantry of Puerto Rico. I watch the clothesline out back, bouncing on the wind with its four frozen shirts. LongLong talks about waking beside a man bleeding from the eyes. It sounds like Antonioni.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jules Laforgue |Dorianne Laux |Anne Carson |Michael Ondaatje
Safaa Fathy, trans. from the Arabic by Rawad Z. Wehbe. Litmus, $22 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-933959-73-3Presented in English alongside the original Arabic, this expansive selection of poems by Fathy (Al Haschische) draws from four collections published between 1989 and 2010.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Anne Carson |Nicholson Baker |Julia Armfield
Everyone wants to get inside of someone else’s marriage. That’s the appeal behind TV shows such as Couples Therapy and the therapist Esther Perel’s podcast Where Should We Begin?—and The New York Times’ recent report on the separation of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlaine McCray. Matrimony, for all its mundanity, carries a mysterious aura: How might it alter the ways two people love? How might it fundamentally change who they are?
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson
‘Mengi’ event, Brooklyn, 12 May 2023 she does a performance that involves screaming more formally you might say vocal improv I would say screaming what I think of it I’m not yet loosened up enough to say they are quite pale the musicians mostly Icelanders mostly improv who has trouble with improv, well, who does not I don’t know if it’s good I don’t know what good is we are unmoored the good and I she screams for a good long time that’s something else about improv the long time is it hard to...
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
poets.org | Rosmarie Waldrop |Anne Carson |Ed Lee
1 Your singular, my love. Rehearses its absence. You see light, hear noise, feel the warmth of the sun. Do you connect it into “day”? You move through shards and splinters. Toward. You are no longer possible. 2 Because, my love. The night such a vast space. And you a bird in oblique flight. I try to hold on. To moments still ours. Even as they slip away. Each word of yours, each gesture, gently. Once upon no more. Do not fall again. Not even like an apple in autumn. 3 Because we say: we.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson
Anne Carson Anne Carson’s collections of poetry include Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, Nox and The Beauty of the Husband, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her many translations of classical works include An Oresteia, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Antigone and . Her , inspired by Euripides’ , is being made into an opera.
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Feb 26, 2023 | 
allevents.in | Anne Carson
Dedicated to Dorothy Porter, who put poetry and detective fiction on the map. To be launched by Andrea Goldsmith. Drawing inspiration from a range of fictional detectives The Detective’s Chair is a whimsical collection of 32 short prose poems which explores creative problem-solving.
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Jan 26, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anne Carson
To Stykkishólmur to report on the weather you go. Have to borrow a big car, special tyres, four-wheel drive. You know how weather in Stykkishólmur can be complex. You lived there once in 2009. Eked-out sunrise. You write this down in your notebook, wondering if eked is a word. Pink as a rinsed dishrag, you add, then cross it out. It's about 11 a.m. Temperature 15 degrees F feels like 5. Visibility poor. You look west to see if the Snaefellsjökull glacier is present today.
