Autobiography Of Red

Author: Anne Carson

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  • : $37.99 AUD
  • : 9780224059732
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : 0.297
  • : July 1999
  • : 217mm X 162mm
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  • : Anne Carson
  • : Cape Poetry S.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780224059732
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Description

The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. This is an epic poem.

Promotion info

'Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today. Autobiography of Red is a wonderful, mongrel work, a strange and ambitious bridge between classical texts and contemporary autobiographical poetry' - Michael Ondaatje

Awards

Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 1999 and TS Eliot Prize 1999.

Author description

Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.