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Anne Carson

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  • ABOUT Anne Carson

    Canadian-born poet and classicist Anne Carson is a professor of classics, comparative literature, and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbour. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so.  Her publications include Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (2006), and An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (2009).

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 1, 2008.

The distinguished poet, translator, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan performs her haunted and haunting poem-essay about the problems of prophecy (prescient Cassandra at the threshold of Agamemnon’s home on the eve of his murder) and translation (how to translate her cries of alarm and grief into language that can be understood and acted upon).  Carson’s poetry collections include Decreation, Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, and The Beauty of the Husband.

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