Anne Carson

In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon.

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes with an intensity and an integrity that is transfiguring.

Flyte er tjuetre hefter samlet i en boks som består av essays, dikt og noen mer prosapoetiske partier. Tekstene kan leses i tilfeldig rekkefølge, og utgjør en miks av stemmer og perspektiver som undersøker myter og hukommelse, skjønnhet og tap, der grensene for språk og form forskyves. De ulike tekstene er gjendiktet av Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Øyvind Berg, Simen Hagerup, Tone Hødnebø, Cecilie Løveid, Karin Nygård og Jørn H. Sværen. Anne Carson har mottatt en rekke priser og utmerkelser for sitt nyskapende forfatterskap og er oversatt til mange språk. Boka Glass, ironi og Gud utkom i 2014, og Rød Selvbiografi utkom i 2021 i norsk gjendiktning ved Tone Hødnebø.