Anne Carson
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone, ' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a...
7) Red doc>
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
8) Wrong Norma
Author
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wrong.'"...