Antigonick

Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, "Dear Antigone."

About the Author :
Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.

Review :
"Carson is nothing less than brilliant-unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties." -- Publishers Weekly "Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity." -- Richard Bernstein - The New York Times "She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern." -- Washington Square News "People who don't read poetry read Anne Carson." -- Deborah Landau "She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag "It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late." -- Judith Butler - Public Books "Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful." -- The New Yorker "The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost." -- The Times Literary Supplement " A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel. " -- Slate "Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing-she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version." -- The Guardian "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob "Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in Antigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you." -- Full Stop "Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature." -- The Rumpus "Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment." -- The New Inquiry "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob