About Anne Carson
Anne Carson, born in Toronto on June 21, 1950, is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, researcher and teacher of history at McGill University in Montreal. Her training in civilization and history of the ancient world, as well as her knowledge of classical languages and literatures, allowed her to incorporate in her writings, poetry, ideas and themes, myths and philosophy of antiquity, especially Greek myths and philosophy.She is the author of several volumes that combine poetry, prose and non-fiction. In 2020, she won the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature. Her first book “Eros the Bittersweet” published in 1986, is an exploration of the concept of “Eros” in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with “It was Sappho who first called Eros 'bittersweet'”, no one who has been in love disputes her. In this book, Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's “Spring and All” and William H. Gass's “On Being Blue”.
Today, she holds a professorship in Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Winner of the MacArthur Prize in 2000, winner of a Governor General's Literary Award and the Lannan Literary Prize (1996), and twice recipient of the prestigious Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001, 2014), Anne Carson is also a translator of ancient Greek world literature.
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If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.
