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H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
$42.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful illustrated poetry book, reinterpreting the Greek myth of Herakles' tenth labour, from one of the world's most respected living poets. H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth He ...Show more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Presented with the Greek on facing pages, her verses appear here as if on the ragged ...Show more
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Gr ...Show more
Nox by Anne Carson
$82.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus for his brother who died in the Troad. Nox is a work of poet ...Show more
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Poetry Pamphlets 13-16 by Carson, Anne, Hagiwara, Sakutaro, Mandelshtam, Osip, Shangyin, Li
$47.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Red Doc by Anne Carson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc"> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is ...Show more
Red.Doc by Anne Carson
$42.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called G, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover Sad (short for Sad But Great), a war ve ...Show more
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
$33.50 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
**"New York" Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc"> continues their adventur ...Show more
Short Talks by Anne Carson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a forew ...Show more
The Beauty Of The Husband by Anne Carson
$47.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
$35.50 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
The Beauty Of The Husband""is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessi ...Show more