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Anne Carson

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. A former MacArthur Fellow, awards for her numerous books include the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Red Doc> was recently awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the inaugural Folio Prize. Her first full poetry collection, Short Talks, was published by Brick Books in 1992 and was presented as a new edition in 2015: SHORT TALKS: BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS 1.

Books by Anne Carson

H of H Playbook

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Red Doc>

Float

Autobiography of Red

The Albertine Workout

Antigonick

An Oresteia

Decreation

The Beauty of the Husband

Men in the Off Hours

Plainwater

Eros the Bittersweet

Short Talks