Anne Carson

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and Classics scholar.

Carson lived in Montreal for many years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University from 1980 to 1987.

She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was given a MacArthur Fellowship.

She has also been a winner of the Lannan Literary Award.

Life and work

Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950. Since her father was a banker, she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns.

A Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and Greek words of Ancient Greece and tutored her privately in high school. She left twice while enrolled at St. Michael' College in Toronto, both at the end of her first and second years. Carson, who was dissatisfied by curriculum limitations (particularly by a mandatory course on Milton), moved to graphic arts for a short time. She did later return to the University of Toronto, where she obtained her B.A. Her M.A. degree was earned in 1974. In 1975, she obtained her Ph.D. in 1981 and 1982. At the University of St Andrews, she spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism.

Carson, who was trained as a classicist and with an interest in comparative literature, anthropology, history, and the arts, weaves concepts and themes from many fields of study. Aeschylus, Catullus, Euripides, Homer, Ibycus, Mimnermus, Sappho, Simonides, Stesichorus, and Thucydides are among the writers who have cited, modernizes, and translate Ancient Greek and Latin literature. Emily Bront, Paul Celan, Emily Dickinson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georg Friedrich Hegel, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Simone Weil, and Virginia Woolf are all influences by, and references other modern writers and thinkers, including Emily Bront, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Georg Georg Hegel, Emily Dickinson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georg Friedrich Hegel, Georg Georg Hegel Poetry, essay, prose, analysis, translation, dramatic dialogue, and non-fiction are all present in many of her books.

Two first editions of Carson's eighteen books of writings (as of 2021) have been published in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf and the Princeton University Press in the United States, as well as in Canada by Brick Books and McClelland & Stewart, Jonathan Cape, Oberon Books, and Sylph Editions.

Eros the Bittersweet – Carson's first book of criticism, examines eros as a simultaneous experience of pleasure and pain best exemplified by "glukupikron," a term of Sappho's creation and the book's "bittersweet" of the book's title. It's important to consider how triangulations of desire appear in Sappho's, ancient Greek novelists, and Plato's writings. Eros the Bittersweet "lay the groundwork for her forthcoming publications" by reworking her 1981 doctoral thesis Odi et Amo Ergo Sum ("I Hate and I Love, So I Am"), "laughing the prospect of a new appreciation" is embedded in her writings, establishing her "style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature."

The Off Hours (2000) collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcman, Catullus, Sappho, and others). Carson's long poems were not included in the book. The pieces include references to writers, researchers, and artists, as well as historical, biblical, and mythological figures, including Anna Akhmatova, Antigone, Antonin Artaud, John James Audubon, Augustine, Bei Dao, Catherine Deneuve, Tamiki Hara, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, and Virginia Woolf.

At the address to the University of Toronto's Ph.D. graduating class of 2012. Carson wrote a series of "short talks" or short-format poems on various topics. She also participated in the Bush Theatre's Sixty Six Books in 2011, a piece based on the Epistle of Jude from the King James Bible.

Carson's first book of poetry, Canicula di Anna, 1984, was shortlisted for her first literary award, the Quarterly Review of Literature Betty Colladay Award. In the fifteen years after her debut in 1986, Eros the Bittersweet grew in popularity, generating a new audience and redesigned for a whole new audience. Eros the Bittersweet had already fallen into popular culture by the 1999 Modern Library Reader's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century, and she was also included (along with Autobiography of Red) in a 2004 episode of the television series The L Word.

The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards (known as "QSPELL" until 1998), which shortlisted Carson for Short Talks in 1993 before going on to award her the accolade three times between 1996 and 2001 (for Glass, Irony, and God, Autobiography of Red, and The Beauty of the Husband) among her many awards from 1996 to 2001 (for Glass, Irony, and God). Carson's early years saw her shortlisted for the 1994 Journey Prize for "Water Margins," as well as the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the 1997 Pushcart Prize for her poem "Jaget." Carson was given a Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowship in 1997, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and a MacArthur Fellowship (commonly known as the "Genius Grant") in 2000.

Carson was shortlisted three times (for Autobiography of Red in 1998, Men in the Off Hours in 2000, and Nox in 2010), making her and Alice Munro the first two non-Americans to be named after the Award was established globally in 1998. In 1998, she was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize in Glass and God, her first book of poetry published in the United Kingdom. Carson was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize four times between 1999 and 2013, making her the first woman to be named in this category. Carson was the first poet to win the Griffin Poetry Prize (for Men in the Off Hours in 2001), and the first to win the award for the second time (for Red Doc> in 2013). She was also a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Carson was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005, the occasion describing her as "a singular voice in our country's literature." In 2012, she was awarded an honourary degree by her alma mater, the University of Toronto. In 2014, she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews, where she studied for a degree with Kenneth Dover in 1975-1976.

Carson was nominated for the one-time New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018, which was conceived as an alternative to the postponed 2018 Nobel Prize. She was nominated for the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature in 2020, with the jury noting that she "has attained the same level of vigor and intellectual esteem that place her among the best of contemporary writers" in the country's best-known writers. Carson received the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature in 2021, recognizing a body of work marked by "continuity and consummate craftsmanship," and she was first shortlisted for the award in 2001 (for Men in the Off Hours).

Carson has appeared in two edited volumes: Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and published by the University of Michigan Press in 2015, as it pertains to her breadth of her works; and Anne Carson/Antiquity (sic), edited by Laura Jansen and published by Bloomsbury in 2021, which discusses Carson's classicism as it appears in her poetry, translations, essays, and visualization artistry.

Carson has been regarded as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years, alongside Margaret Atwood, Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, Ng'o, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Can Xue.

Carson has published translations of ten ancient Greek tragedies, one by Aeschylus (Agamemnon), two by Sophocles (Antigone, Electra), and seven by Euripides (Alcestis, Hecuba, Herakles, Hippolytus, Iphigenia, Tauris, Orestes, and The Bacchae).

The University of Chicago Press and Bernard A. Knopf's seven books of translations have published first editions of Carson's seven books of translations, as well as Oberon Books and the Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom.

Carson was a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence at 92nd Street (New York City), from August 1986 to August 1987, where she worked on a translation of Sophocles' Electra. It was eventually published in 2001 and included in her 2009 book An Oresteia, which received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2010. The Classic Stage Company produced An Oresteia in New York in 2009, starring Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Electra, and Euripides' Orestetes.

In 2007, Carson was also an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where she worked on a translation of the ancient Greek play Proeschylus (attributed to Aeschylus), an excerpt of which was published in 2010.

In 2015, a production of Carson's Antigone directed by Ivo van Hove and starring Juliette Binoche opened in Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg before heading to cities in Europe and the United States, including London (Barbican Centre), New York (BAM), and Paris (Thétre de la Ville).

Carson started teaching at the University of Calgary in 1979 before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She began teaching at Princeton University in 1980 and later as an assistant professor. During her tenure as a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence (1986–1987), she worked at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Carson left Princeton in 1987 to teach classical languages and literature at Emory University in Atlanta, for a year, then to McGill University in Montreal as Director of Graduate Studies in Classics, failing to make tenure.

Carson's teaching career came to a halt in the late 1990s when McGill canceled all undergraduate courses in ancient Greek, closed its Classics Department, and moved all remaining Classics courses to its History Department. Carson, who is now teaching at McGill as associate professor, dealt with this by spending half of each year as a visiting lecturer at other universities, including the University of Michigan (Norman Freehling Visiting Professorship, 1999–2000), and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (Spring 2001). In 2000, McGill's John MacNaughton Professor of Classics was named John MacNaughton Professor of Classics.

Carson arrived in Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan in 2003, where she spent as Professor of Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, and English Language and Literature until 2009. Carson ran for the University of Oxford's Professor of Poetry Chair in 2004, finishing second behind eventual nominee Christopher Ricks with around 30 nominations. In 2009, she was cited as a front-runner for the four-year role.

In 2009, Carson joined the New York University Creative Writing Program as a Distinguished Poet-in-Residence and Visiting Professor. "Egocircus" is her husband's and collaborator Robert Currie's annual class at NYU on collaboration. Carson served at Cornell University from 2010 to 2016, as well as the Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford University (Critical Writing Program). In 2014, she joined Bard College as a Visiting Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, teaching classical studies and the written arts. Carson has referred to her more diverse work in the latter part of her career as "a visiting [whatever]] and her decades of teaching ancient Greek as "a complete joy."

Carson is well-known for her reminiscences about her personal life, and she avoids autobiographical readings of her writings. Anne Carson was born in Canada and taught ancient Greek for a living." Though she is not a confessional writer, her writing is considered personal. Carson has stated that she uses her life as just one set of facts among the world's best.

Carson's first marriage, during which she used the surname Giacomelli, lasted eight years and ended in 1980. This union and its aftermath have been described as a source for "Kinds of Water" (collected in Plainwater) and "The Beauty of the Husband." Carson has admitted that her first husband stole her notebooks when they divorced (as does the protagonist in The Beauty of the Husband), but that they later returned them.

Robert, Carson's father, had Alzheimer's disease. "The Glass Essay" (collected in Glass, Irony, and God), "Very Narrow" (collected in Plainwater), and "Father's Old Blue Cardigan" (collected in Men in the Off Hours) all concern with his mental and physical decline.

Margaret Carson (1913-1997) died during the writing of Men in the Off Hours. Carson closed the collection with the prose piece "Appendix to Ordinary Time," a word that was not in the diaries and manuscripts of Virginia Woolf's to create an epitaph. Red Doc> has been described as the second elegy for her mother's death. Carson has referred to her mother as the love of her life.

In 1978, Carson's brother Michael was arrested for drug trafficking. He fled Canada but she never saw him again after he went to jail. In "Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother," Carson dealt with the disappearance of her brother from her life (collected in Plainwater), which is written as a sort of memoir. In 2000, he called her and they arranged a meeting in Copenhagen, where he lived, but he died before they could reconnect. Nox, an epitaph Carson created for her brother in 2000 and subsequently published in 2010, has been described as her most specific personal work.

Carson is married to Robert Currie, whom she first encountered in Ann Arbor while teaching at the University of Michigan. Currie has been dubbed "my collaborator-husband guy" by the author. They have collaborated on books and performances for Nox and Antigonick, as well as book layouts and performances. During their creative process, Carson also refers to Currie as "the randomizer."

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