WORKS

POETRY

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. New York: Knopf, 2001.

Men in the Off Hours. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. New York: Knopf, 1998.

Glass, Irony, and God. New York: New Directions, 1995.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Short Talks. London, ON: Brick Books, 1992.

OTHER WORKS

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. translated by Anne Carson. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Electra/ Sophocles. translated by Anne Carson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
CRITICISM

Battis, Jes. “‘Dangling Inside the Word She’: Confusion and Gender Vertigo in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red.” Canadian Literature (2003): 198.

Furlani, Andre. “Reading Paul Celan with Anne Carson: ‘What Kind of Witness Would That Be?’” Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 84-104.

Jennings, Chris. “The Erotic Poetics of Anne Carson.” University of Toronto Quarterly 70.4 (2001): 923.

Jennings, Chris. “Subversion by Sound.” Canadian Literature 180 (2004): 176-177.

MacDonald, Tanis. “The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Father-daughter Kinship in Anne Carson’s ‘The Anthropology of Water’.” Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 67-83.

McNeilly, Kevin. “Five Fairly Short Talks on Anne Carson.” Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 6-11.

McNeilly, Kevin. “Gifts and Questions: An Interview with Anne Carson.” Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 12-27.

Rae, Ian. “Anne Carson and the Solway Hoaxes.” Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 45-66.

Rae, Ian. “‘Dazzling Hybrids’: The Poetry of Anne Carson.” Canadian Literature 166 (2000): 17-42.

Stanton, Robert. "‘I am Writing This to be as Wrong as Possible to You’: Anne Carson’s Errancy.” Canadian Literature (2003): 28.

Tschofen, Monique. “‘First I Must Tell About Seeing’: (De)monstrations of Visuality and the Dynamics of Metaphor in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red.” Canadian Literature 180 (2004): 31-50.

DISSERTATIONS

Uppal, Priscila. “Recovering the Past Through Language and Landscape: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy.” York University, 2004.
AWARDS

1996: Lannan Award

1997: Pushcart Prize

1998: Guggenheim Fellowship

2000: MacArthur Fellowship

2001: Griffin Prize
BIOGRAPHY
Anne Carson’s book covers provide little biographical information to interested readers: her books state only that “Anne Carson lives in Canada.” She was born in Toronto in 1950, and studied Latin and Greek at the University of Toronto. She also received a Master’s degree in Classics from the University of Toronto, and, after traveling to Scotland to receive a diploma in Classics, Carson returned to Toronto to complete a PhD. She currently teaches at McGill in Montreal.

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