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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.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Anne Carson is a philosopher of heartbreak....[S]he has written a brilliant book about desire, the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, volcanoes, and the joyful brutalities of seeing and blindness."
Nation - Bruce Hainley (06/01/1998)
"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED is a compelling tale grippingly told, and is unusual among 'verse novels' in realizing both parts of its hybrid nature equally well."
London Review of Books - Elizabeth Lowry (10/05/2000)
"The Canadian writer Anne Carson is among the most interesting of contemporary English-language poets. For the most part, the present-day poem either thinks or feels...but Carson's rare, inclusive imagination can embody both thought and feeling in ways that move as well as divert the reader. If AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED...seems a failure, it is still more engrossing than the tame successes of those poets who are all heart or all brain."
Times Literary Supplement - Oliver Reynolds (12/03/1999)
"This darkly layered original work deserves readers willing to put up with a good deal of flimflam for the pleasures of a poetry oddly conceived....Carson has found the means of her story in the blank matter of existence--any number of scraps must have come directly form her life...but the classical frame allows her a distance wholly refreshing. Though the poem must be judged a failed narrative, any reader will be grateful for such failures at a time when poetry risks so little. This is a child novel born in the INFERNO."
New Criterion - William Logan (06/01/1999)
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