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1	Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist This novel in verse by poet Anne Carson is based on the ancient Greek legend of a winged monster named Geryon. Here, he discovers photography and becomes fascinated with it, and with a young man named Herakles. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $5.80! new only from $7.91! \| first editions \| SVS
2	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a splendid new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. "If Not, Winter" brings to life an extraordinary ancient poet through the efforts of an empathic contemporary poet. see all copies from $5.49! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	An Oresteia more books like this by Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia," the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions--Aischylos' "Agamemnon," Sophokles' "Elektra," and Euripides' "Orestes"--giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of ... see all copies from $13.59! new only from $19.25! \| SVS
5	Eros the Bittersweet more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $10.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Glass, Irony, and God more books like this by Anne Carson, Professor Guy Davenport (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.98! new only from $10.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $19.76! \| SVS
8	Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound: What Thou Lovest Well-- more books like this by Anne Conover Carson add to wishlist The mistress of Ezra Pound for nearly half a century, and the mother of his child, Rudge (1895-1996) was also an artist in her own right. A celebrated violinist, Rudge helped revive Vivaldi?s reputation in the 1930s. Drawing on the extensive letters between Pound and Rudge, this biography draws a portrait of Rudge as a muse and an artist. see all copies from $3.08! new only from $3.18! \| first editions
9	Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides more books like this by Euripides, Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind ... see all copies from $4.26! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Men in the Off Hours more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist The poems in this volume blend the classical rigor and disciplined thought of scholarly work with the unpredictable turns and loops of postmodern life, setting Thucydides and Virginia Woolf in conversation, for instance, or putting Catullus in the driver's seat of a Red Cross ambulance. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Plainwater: Essays and Poetry more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist This volume brings together the most turbulent of Carson's published disruptions--"Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings", "Short Talks", "Canicula di Anna", "The Life of Towns", and "The Anthropology of Water". Prose and poetry imbued with robustly female provocations, it makes an eloquent and supremely emphatic statement. see all copies from $4.75! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Little Book of Cherished Poems: Beautiful Poetry to Treasure more books like this by Kay Anne Carson (Editor) add to wishlist Favorite poets, beloved verses. The beautiful poems in this collection express the incredible, the joyous, the heartbreaking moments that make up the very pulse of life. All these works have the power to reflect our own emotions and experiences: the fragility of youth and beauty in "Ode to a Grecian Urn, " the challenge of maintaining one's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda more books like this by Anne Conover Carson, Anne Conover add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	For You with Love more books like this by Kay Anne Carson add to wishlist We all need a refuge from the demands of a world often too much with us; the hustle and bustle of "important matters" leaves us empty without that one essential person in our lives who reminds us what the fuss is all about. The moving verses in this brilliantly designed gift collection from Dickinson, Shakespeare, Keats, Browning, Wordsworth, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Advanced Information Systems Engineering more books like this by Anne Banks Pidduck, John Mylopoulos (Editor), Carson C Woo (Editor) add to wishlist This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2002, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2002. The 42 revised full papers and 26 short papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 173 submissions. ... see all copies from $22.80! new only from $72.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	For Mother with Love more books like this by Kay Anne Carson add to wishlist There are very few constants in our lives today. The world map is in perpetual flux; technology outdates trends before they can develop; jobs change and friends leave, yet nothing on this earth can change a mother's love: it is never-ending and all-encompassing. More precious than gold, a child at any age owes the beat of his heart and the color ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17	Poems of Love and Faith more books like this by Kay Anne Carson (Editor) add to wishlist The language of poetry can express the great potential for human thought and emotion to soar above the petty and mundane and to reach for the heights of love, truth, courage and faith. Includes poems from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Whitman, Longfellow, and others. Gold-stamped jacketed edition with colored endpapers. Color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
18	Goddesses and Wise Women: The Literature of Feminist Spirituality 1980-1992 an Annotated... more books like this by Anne Carson (Editor) add to wishlist IN see all copies from $2.06! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Short Talks by Anne Carson add to wishlist Lyric sermons: Riddle-poems that consist only of answers: Lou Reid meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen: The pure hilarious ache of ontology: "Short Talks is elegiac, perceptive, droll. It is the first book-length collection by an accomplished, original voice. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again. see all copies from $3.33! new only from $10.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Grief Lessons: Four Plays more books like this by Euripides, Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent ... see all copies from $3.48! new only from $5.97! \| SVS
21 view cover	Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) more books like this by Anne Carson add to wishlist This work by classics scholar and celebrated poet Anne Carson pairs the poetry of Simonides of Keos--a lyric poet of 5th century BC Greece--with the poetry of Paul Celon--understood to be one of the most gifted post-Holocaust writers. Carson emphasizes that their fundamental difference lies in Celan's ultimate mistrust of language, compared with ... see all copies from $5.72! new only from $82.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Knopf National Poetry Month Collection more books like this by Sarah Arvio, Anne Carson, Jack Gilbert add to wishlist Since 1998, the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group has celebrated National Poetry Month(TM) by emailing a poem-a-day throughout the month of April to over 25,000 devoted poetry fans. In April 2006, Knopf introduced the Poem-a-Day podcast, which featured poets including Kevin Young and James Merrill reading their own poems, as well as Knopf authors ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $4.15! \| SVS
23 view cover	Risks and Rewards: A Memoir more books like this by Juilia Montgomery Walsh, Julia M. Walsh, Anne Conover Carson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49! \| signed copies
24	Spiritual Parenting in the New Age more books like this by Anne Carson (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
25 view cover	It more books like this by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Inger Christensen's masterpiece "it," translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson. "it" is the masterwork by Danish poet Inger Christensen ("a true singer of the syllables," said C. D. Wright), often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets. On its publication in 1969, it ... see all copies from $11.17! new only from $11.17! \| SVS

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