Anne Carson
Born June 21, 1950
From Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Nationality: Canada, Iceland · Writes nonfiction
Quotes
“My religion makes no sense / and does not help me / therefore I pursue it.”
"My Religion", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions New York, NY , 1995. “She doesn’t get to say much in the official biography — / I believe they are out of wine, etc., / practical things — / watching with one eye as he goes about the world / calling himself The Son Of Man.”
"God's Mother", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions New York, NY , 1995. “while the shadows like long fingers / over the haystacks that sweep past / keep shocking him / because he is riding backwards.”
"Father’s Old Blue Cardigan", Men in the Off Hours, Knopf New York, NY , 2000.
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Anne Carson in order
Books by Anne Carson in the order they were published, from Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to Wrong Norma (2024).
- 1Eros the Bittersweet
Eros the Bittersweet1986 - 2Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine
Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine1986 - 3Goddesses & Wise Women
Goddesses & Wise Women1992 - 4Short Talks
Short Talks1992 - 5Glass, Irony & God
Glass, Irony & God1995 - 6Plainwater
Plainwater1995 - 7Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red1998 - 8Economy of the Unlost
Economy of the Unlost1999 - 9Men in the off Hours
Men in the off Hours2000 - 10The Beauty of the Husband
The Beauty of the Husband2001 - 11Decreation
Decreation2005 - 12An Oresteia
An Oresteia2009 - 13Nox
Nox2010 - 14Antigonick
Antigonick2012 - 15Elliott Hundley
Elliott Hundley2012 - 16Red Doc>
Red Doc>2013 - 17Nay Rather
Nay Rather2014 - 18The Albertine Workout
The Albertine Workout2014 - 19The Blue of Distance
The Blue of Distance2015 - 20Float
Float2016What's in it (23)
- By Chance the Cycladic People
- Candor
- Cassandra Float Can
- Contempts: A Study of Profit and Nonprofit in Homer, Moravia and Godard
- The Designated Mourner by Wally Shawn, Final Production, NYC, June
- Eras of Yves Klein
- Good Dog I, II, and III
- How to Like "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" by Gertrude Stein
- L.a
- Maintenance
- Merry Christmas from Hegel
- Nelligan: Some Poems Translated from the French
- 108 (Flotage)
- Performance Notes
- Pinplay: A Version of Euripides' Bacchae
- Possessive Used as Drink (Me): A Lecture on Pronouns in the Form of 15 Sonnets
- Powerless Structures Fig. 11 (Sanne)
- Pronoun Envy
- Stacks
- Uncle Falling: A Pair of Lyric Lectures with Shared Chorus
- Variations on the Right to Remain Silent
- Wildly Constant
- Zeusbits
- 21Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy2019 - 22H of H Playbook
H of H Playbook2021 - 23Trojan Women
Trojan Women2021 - 24Wrong Norma
Wrong Norma2024