Anne Carson (poet)
... is a Canadian poet and philologist whom I've never heard of and who just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I seem to recall the Nobel likes to shine a spotlight on lesser-known literary figures, but still, I'm slightly embarrassed that her name doesn't even ring a bell faintly.
Is anyone familiar with her work who can share something about it?
And if you were going to award the Nobel prize for Literature to someone nobody has ever heard of, who would it be?
Is anyone familiar with her work who can share something about it?
And if you were going to award the Nobel prize for Literature to someone nobody has ever heard of, who would it be?
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I've read The Autobiography of Red: it's up to a lot of things at once and I only took about half of them half in. The meditation on monstrousness is I think both the most obvious and least unique part of the work.
The selection is a number of subpoems from a longer poem called The Truth about God - one of which is God's Justice in which on the day God is to make justice God gets caught up in making a dragonfly. The poem seems to sympathise.
@Sojourner it may not have been evident from my (unintentionally) misleading screen name but I am actually in Canada, hence the embarrassment.
Available to read here. She has a remarkable way of taking a word and, as it were, resetting it to show different facets of meaning.