Author guide
Anne Carson Books in Order
Anne Carson (born 1950 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet, essayist, classicist, translator, and professor. Her work frequently combines poetry with scholarship, fiction, drama, memoir, visual art, and musical or theatrical forms. She is known for books including Eros the Bittersweet, Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband, Decreation, Red Doc>, Float, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, and Wrong Norma.
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
The most accessible entry point to Carson's mythic, genre-crossing fiction and poetry.
Short Talks
A concise introduction to Carson's experimental prose-poetry and characteristic wit.
Wrong Norma
A recent, varied collection that surveys Carson's essayistic and poetic range.
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Autobiography of Red
A two-work sequence following the red-winged monster Geryon through mythic, modern, and poetic transformations.
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Novels (1)
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Eros the Bittersweet: An EssayAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1986
