Editing Anne Carson (section)

=== Works ===
''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'' – Carson's first book of criticism, published in 1986 – examines [[eros (concept)|eros]] as a simultaneous experience of pleasure and pain best exemplified by "glukupikron", a word of Sappho's creation and the "bittersweet" of the book's title.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corless-Smith |first1=Martin |editor1-last=Wilkinson |editor1-first=Joshua Marie |editor1-link=Joshua Marie Wilkinson |title=Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre |date=2015 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=978-0-472-05253-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnEvBgAAQBAJ&q=Anne+Carson:+Ecstatic+Lyre |chapter=Living on the Edge: The Bittersweet Place of Poetry}}</ref> It considers how triangulations of desire appear in the writings of Sappho, [[ancient Greek novel]]ists, and [[Plato]].<ref name="Scranton 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Scranton |first1=Roy |author-link1=Roy Scranton |title=Estranged Pain: Anne Carson's ''Red Doc>'' |journal=Contemporary Literature |date=Spring 2014 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=202–214 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |doi=10.1353/cli.2014.0010 |s2cid=162212718 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |access-date=18 September 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607230821/https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |url-status=live }}</ref> A reworking of her 1981 doctoral thesis ''Odi et Amo Ergo Sum'' ("I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-link1=Anne Carson |title=Odi et Amo Ergo Sum |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto}} [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]</ref> ''Eros the Bittersweet'' "laid the groundwork for her subsequent publications, […] formulating the ideas on desire that would come to dominate her poetic output",<ref name="LitEncyc"/> and establishing her "style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature".<ref name="Poetry Foundation">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726181311/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' (2000) is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, [[epitaph]]s, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of [[Alcman]], Catullus, Sappho and others).<ref name="Poetry Foundation" /> The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> The pieces include diverse references to writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as to historical, biblical, and mythological figures, including: [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[Antigone]], [[Antonin Artaud]], [[John James Audubon]], [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]], [[Bei Dao]], [[Catherine Deneuve]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Tamiki Hara]], [[Hokusai]], [[Edward Hopper]], Longinus (both [[Longinus|biblical]] and [[Longinus (literature)|literary]]), [[Thucydides]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], and [[Virginia Woolf]].

Carson delivered a series of "short talks", or short-format poems on various subjects, at the address to the [[University of Toronto]] Ph.D. graduating class of 2012.<ref name="U of T honor" /> She also participated in the [[Bush Theatre]]'s project ''[[Sixty Six Books]]'' in 2011, writing a piece titled "Jude: The Goat at Midnight" based on the [[Epistle of Jude]] from the [[King James Bible]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woddis |first1=Carole |title=Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre |url=https://www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/sixty-six-books-bush-theatre |website=The Arts Desk |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=17 October 2011 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916185853/https://www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/sixty-six-books-bush-theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |editor1-last=Haydon |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Holmes |editor2-first=Rachel |editor3-last=Power |editor3-first=Ben |editor4-last=Rourke |editor4-first=Josie |editor1-link=Christopher Haydon |editor3-link=Ben Power |editor4-link=Josie Rourke |title=Sixty-Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible |date=2011 |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84943-227-6 |page=521 |chapter=The Goat at Midnight}}</ref>