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Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from to She was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.

Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books as of , all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogueAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from to She was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.

Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books as of , all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. She is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, and Glass

Anne Carson is a genius. The sort of genius where even the most bawdy of jokes feel like the culmination of a semester’s worth of deep research to deliver a dissertation like a punchline. Autobiography of Red is a masterpiece from Carson that, heartbreaking and hilarious in turn, plays with the Classics in a way that can simultaneously make professors cheer and clutch pearls as she reminds us nothing is sacrosanct in the pursuit of experimental art. Autobiography of Red is a stunning balance of serious and silly that lifts a classic tale by its ankles and shakes it to spill insights from its pockets onto the pavement. Not unlike her description of these “fragments” from Stesichoros she is purportedly presenting the reading, it reads as if it had ‘composed a substantial narrative poem then ripped it to pieces and buried the pieces in a box with some song lyrics and lecture notes and scraps of meat’ as Carson transforms a Greek myth into a modern, queer coming-of-age tale of ‘identity memory eternity.’ Under Carson’s jocular “retelling”—if it can even be called that beyond having several key ingredients—the mythical, winged beast Geryon becomes a modern lovelorn youth with a penchant for photography adrift on the tempestuous seas of his emotions. He reads like an 80s indie film, camera slung around his neck, a tattered volume of German philosophy in his pockets, and headphone blasting the saddest tracks of The Smiths into his ears. A sort of emo composure that screams ‘under the seams runs the pain,’ yet upon his repeated interactions with Herakles it becomes a little less Sixteen Candles, a little more “touch me” as the song goes. It is a story of loss and grief but, because ‘sometimes a journey makes itself necessary,’ it all climbs a strenuous path towards self-discovery and acceptance. While Carson warns ‘if you find this text difficult, you are not alone,’ and there are moments when you may certainly feel a joke