Anne Carson

Born:	June 21, 1950 (1950-06-21) (age 57) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:	poet
Nationality:	Canadian
Debut works:	Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. For many years she lived in Montreal and taught at McGill University. Reticent about her private life, the biography published in current editions of her books reads, simply, "Anne Carson lives in Canada." is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...

Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. The fascination with classical literature which dominates her work began to take root in high school. There, a Latin instructor offered to initate her into the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored the future poet privately ^[1]. Enrolling at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, she left twice--at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on Milton), defected to the world of graphic arts for a short time ^[2]. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981 ^[3]. The Brennan Hall complex at St. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Milton is the name of a number of places: In the United States of America: Milton, Delaware Milton, Florida Milton, Illinois Milton, Indiana Milton, Iowa Milton, Kentucky Milton, Maine Milton High School in Alpharetta, GA Milton, Massachusetts Milton, New Hampshire Milton (town), New York (in Saratoga County) Milton, Ulster County...

A professor of the classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. She has published ten books as of 2006, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. A classical language, is a language with a literature that is classical—ie, it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. ... Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of humanity. ... Commercial art refers to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, a making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ...

Anne Carson is a Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.

Selected works

Odi et Amo Ergo Sum, PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1986.

• Eros the Bittersweet (1986) Princeton University Press
• Glass, Irony, and God (1992) New Directions Publishing Company
• Short Talks (1992) Brick Books
• Plainwater (1995) Knopf
• Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) Knopf
• Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Ceos with Paul Celan (1999) Princeton University Press
• Men in the Off Hours (2001) Knopf
• The Beauty of the Husband (2002) Knopf
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) Knopf
• Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) Knopf
• Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation) (2006) New York Review of Books Classics

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Selected awards and honors

• Lannan Literary Award (1996)
• Pushcart Prize (1997)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)
• MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
• Griffin Poetry Prize (2001)
• T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize (2001)

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External links

• [1] Poems by Anne Carson at PoetryFoundation.org
• [2] Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• [3] Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip
• [4] Hermetic Hotties/What is Anne Carson doing on The L Word? by Meghan O'Rourke, Slate
• [5] Criticism of Carson's poetry in "Subduing the reader" by Laurie Smith in Magma, No. 23, Summer 2002
• [6] Anne Carson Biography by Ian Rae.
• [7] Classic Carson by Val Ross in U of T Magazine, Spring 2001.
• [8] Anne Carson interview on KCRW's "Bookworm," August 7, 1997, discussing the roots of her writing, particularly in "Plainwater" and "Glass, Irony and God"

References

• Ian Rae, University of British Columbia. "Carson, Anne." The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 December 2001. The Literary Dictionary Company. 8 December 2005.