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1	Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse more books like this by Anne Carson The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. This is an epic poem. see all copies from $7.27! new only from $7.27! \| first editions
2	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator) 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 $8.27! new only from $9.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Eros the Bittersweet more books like this by Anne Carson A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and ... see all copies from $5.82! new only from $10.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera more books like this by Anne Carson In dazzling original poems, essays, screenplay, and libretto gathered here, the author draws on personal experience and the work of others to illuminate "decreation"--the state in which the self dissolves. see all copies from $4.19! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Glass, Irony, and God more books like this by Anne Carson, Guy Davenport (Introduction by) A new collection from Anne Carson, whose poetry has been characterized by reviewers as "short talks," "essays" or "verse narratives." see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Men in the Off Hours more books like this by Anne Carson In a collection of poetry and prose, Anne Carson reinvents characters as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audobon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine and Catullus through a modern lens. see all copies from $2.86! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos more books like this by Anne Carson 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 $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Plainwater: Essays and Poetry more books like this by Carson 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 $9.40! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound: What Thou Lovest Well-- more books like this by Anne Conover Carson A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary. Strong-minded and defiant of conventions, Rudge knew the best and worst of times with Pound. With him, she coped with the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.40! \| first editions
10	Autobiography of Red more books like this by Anne Carson see all copies from $24.99! signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) more books like this by Anne Carson 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 of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $76.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	A Little Book of Cherished Poems: Beautiful Poetry to Treasure more books like this by Kay Anne Carson (Editor) 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 $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	For Mother with Love more books like this by Kay Anne Carson 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!
14 view cover	It more books like this by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by) 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 $11.11! new only from $11.11!
15	For You with Love more books like this by Kay Anne Carson 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
16 view cover	Caretaking a New Soul more books like this by Anne Carson (Editor) Parents with spiritual beliefs may want to instil a sense of spirituality and ethics into their children, but doing so is a serious challenge. This work collects writings on spiritual parenting from a variety of traditions, ranging from Buddhism through to Paganism. As the book progresses from pregnancy and birth through infancy and childhood to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.62! \| SVS
17	Poems of Love and Faith more books like this by Kay Anne Carson (Editor) 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!
18 view cover	Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides more books like this by Euripides, Anne Carson (Translator) 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 ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan more books like this by Anne Carson 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 $6.99! new only from $11.30! \| SVS
20	Goddesses and Wise Women: The Literature of Feminist Spirituality 1980-1992 an Annotated... more books like this by Anne Carson (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Risks and Rewards: A Memoir more books like this by Juilia Montgomery Walsh, Julia M. Walsh, Anne Conover Carson see all copies from $2.15! new only from $10.99! \| signed copies
22	Poems of Joy and Hope more books like this by Kay Anne Carson (Editor) see all copies from $1.99!
23 view cover	Short Talks by Anne Carson 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 $10.84! new only from $10.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Spiritual Parenting in the New Age more books like this by Anne Carson (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.00!
25	Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay more books like this by Anne Carson see all copies from $27.50! first editions

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