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.
