THE NEW SCHOOL WRITING PROGRAM PRESENTS:
Afternoon Poetry Series: Anne Carson
"Every Exit Is An Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)"
Tuesday, March 8th
Room 510 2:00 p.m.
"[Anne Carson] is one of the few writers in English that I would read anything she wrote." --Susan Sontag
"Read this book now, and you'll later have the pleasure of knowing you were present at the arrival of a truly great poet of our twenty-first century." --Time Out New York (review of Men in the Off Hours)
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"...her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light." *Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
Anne Carson's books of poetry include The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost (1999); Autobiography of Red (1998), shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1996); Glass, Irony and God (1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize; and Goddesses And Wise Women (1992). Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), and the author of Eros the Bittersweet (1998). Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. Carson is was the Director of Graduate Studies in Classics at McGill University and now teaches Classics, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Michigan.
"Every Exit Is An Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)"
Tuesday, March 8th
Room 510 2:00 p.m.
"[Anne Carson] is one of the few writers in English that I would read anything she wrote." --Susan Sontag
"Read this book now, and you'll later have the pleasure of knowing you were present at the arrival of a truly great poet of our twenty-first century." --Time Out New York (review of Men in the Off Hours)
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"...her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light." *Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
Anne Carson's books of poetry include The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost (1999); Autobiography of Red (1998), shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1996); Glass, Irony and God (1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize; and Goddesses And Wise Women (1992). Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), and the author of Eros the Bittersweet (1998). Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. Carson is was the Director of Graduate Studies in Classics at McGill University and now teaches Classics, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Michigan.
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