Anne Carson

Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet and professor of classics and comparative literature at McGill University and at the University of Michigan. She has background in the classics and classical languages, as well as anthropology. She blends ideas and themes from those fields, often modernizing Greek myths or referring to ancient philosophy in her poems and essays. She has written several books, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, and non-fiction.

Selected works

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Eros the Bittersweet
Short Talks
Plainwater
Glass, Irony, and God
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Economy of the Unlost
Men in the Off Hours
The Beauty of the Husband (Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize)
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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