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Anne Carson

Born:	June 21, 1950 (age 56) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:	poet
Nationality:	Canadian
Debut works:	Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. For many years she lived in Montreal and taught at McGill University. Reticent about her private life, the biography published in current editions of her books reads, simply, "Anne Carson lives in Canada."

Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. The fascination with classical literature which dominates her work began to take root in high school. There, a Latin instructor offered to initate her into the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored the future poet privately ^[1]. Enrolling at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, she left twice--at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on Milton), defected to the world of graphic arts for a short time ^[2]. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981 ^[3].

A professor of the classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. She has published ten books as of 2006, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, fiction, and non-fiction.

Contents 1 Selected works 2 Selected awards and honors 3 External links 4 References

Odi et Amo Ergo Sum, PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1986.

• Eros the Bittersweet (1986) Princeton University Press
• Glass, Irony, and God (1992) New Directions Publishing Company
• Short Talks (1992) Brick Books
• Plainwater (1995) Knopf
• Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) Knopf
• Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Ceos with Paul Celan (1999) Princeton University Press
• Men in the Off Hours (2001) Knopf
• The Beauty of the Husband (2002) Knopf
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) Knopf
• Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) Knopf
• Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation) (2006) New York Review Books Classics

• Lannan Award (1996)
• Pushcart Prize (1997)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)
• MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
• Griffin Poetry Prize (2001)
• T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize (2001)

• [1] Poems by Anne Carson at PoetryFoundation.org
• [2] Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• [3] Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip
• [4] Hermetic Hotties/What is Anne Carson doing on The L Word? by Meghan O'Rourke, Slate
• [5] Criticism of Carson's poetry in "Subduing the reader" by Laurie Smith in Magma, No. 23, Summer 2002
• [6] Anne Carson Biography by Ian Rae.
• [7] Classic Carson by Val Ross in U of T Magazine, Spring 2001.

• Ian Rae, University of British Columbia. "Carson, Anne." The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 December 2001. The Literary Dictionary Company. 8 December 2005.

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NAME	Carson, Anne
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Canadian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH