Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse



Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse epub

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Anne Carson ebook
Page: 160
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780375701290
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


That or William Burroughs' Wild Boys. Autobiography of Red is a verse novel framed as a work of classical scholarship; fittingly, its hero is a hybrid, part ancient monster and part modern man. And while she's younger than the women listed above, I'll also second the nomination for Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red if verse novels are eligible. Even if one of her books looks conventional, trust that hidden architecture undergirds the story. The verse novel strategy works brilliantly. By Anne Carson The extract below is from Carson's novel in verse, a modern and often steamy, re-creation of an ancient Greek myth. Olga Broumas' love poems prompted me to consider anew the role of the body in the erotic gaze, and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red introduced me to the form of the novel in verse. The coal miners of Ludlow, Colorado go on strike in 1914, one of the cruelest, bloodiest chapters in the history of American labor. Red Doc> is Carson's sequel to Autobiography of Red, a novel in verse about a red boy with wings, written in 1998. (2009) Faber and Faber; NOX (2010) New Directions, incorporating Catullus 101 of Catullus; Antigonick (2012) New Directions; Red doc> (2013) Knopf, a direct sequel to her first poetic novel Autobiography of Red. As a child it would inevitably be the Natural History Museum that formed the first priority of any trip up to town, but while I still love it dearly its 'reformatting' (away from the maze-like galleries of mysterious glass cases and towards a sparser, more interactive ethos) and the rumbustious presence of billions of excited I'm currently reading Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. Just the other day, for example, Stephen Ira and I got to talking about The Autobiography of Red, the stunningly gorgeous “novel in verse” by super-poet Anne Carson. Porterfield: An adaptation of Anne Carson's verse novel The Autobiography of Red. I really want to do an adaptation of a novel. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison This epic of an America unseen in plain sight begins with a blindfolded boxing match. The wit, intelligence and beauty in this 'novel in verse' is, as Padel suggests, mind blowing. (One of) my deserted island book(s) is The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, which sort of goes with the theme. Posted by Pantheon on October 10, 2006 2:57 AM. We're rounding out our Poetry Month coverage with three books for middle-graders: Gone Fishing: a Novel in Verse, by Tamera Will Wissinger, illustrated by Matthew Cordell.





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