Anne Carson, born in Toronto 1950, teaches classical Greek and Roman literature in Michigan . In Canada and the US she is celebrated as one of the most important voices in today's poetry scene – she has received the Pushcart Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
At the core of Anne Carson's works, is the ancient Greek God Eros, who - according to Plato - embodies the nature of desire. The word “Eros”, meaning both “lack” and “desire”, contains a dynamic of striving or reaching. This attitude or movement is the third component in any relation-ship. The space of Eros is thus triangular.
Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions, 1995
Eros the Bittersweet, Dalkey Archive Press, 1998
Plainwater, Essays and Poetry, Vintage 2000
The Beauty of the Husband, Jonathan Cape , 2001
If Not, Winter, translations from Sappho, Vintage 2003
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera, A.Knopf, 2005