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Anne Carson: Red Doc>
Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge, and her poetry novels Autobiography of Red and the follow-up, Red Doc>.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenAnne Carson is one of the few poets today working with a complete frame of classical reference. With the curiously titled
Red Doc>, she has just reprised the Herculean cast of her celebrated poetry novel,
Autobiography of Red. Carson talks about the quality of her work, by turns playful and heartbreaking, and comments on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge.
Read an excerpt from Red Doc>.
