Books by Anne Carson
“Anne Carson teaches you is that you can always be clever enough, you can always work harder, you can always train yourself to understand more.” Read more...
Max Porter on the Books That Shaped Him
Max Porter, Novelist
The Beauty of the Husband
by Anne Carson
It’s very unconventional as a poetry collection because it’s actually a novel. She has that novelist’s knack of making you turn the page and at the same time there is such radiant poetic language. I think it’s brilliant.
Interviews where books by Anne Carson were recommended
The best books on Poetry, recommended by Sinéad Morrissey
The award-winning Northern Irish poet reveals why the inimitable Sylvia Plath is not always a good influence on young poets and why sublimation of the self is sometimes better than self-expression
Max Porter on the Books That Shaped Him
Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, on the books that have taken him from childhood to adulthood, the deepening shadow of nuclear war, and why he’ll always be on his knees in front of Emily Dickinson
