5/21/2023 0 Comments Anne carson glassIt remains to this day one of the most complex and loving portraits in contemporary queer fiction. Carson is an oracular figure especially among gay readers thanks to her 1998 “novel in verse” Autobiography of Red, which reimagines Geryon, the monster that Hercules slays in his tenth labor, as an awkward, vulnerable gay teenager in love with his hunky boyfriend Herakles. Then the last two lines arrive like a shock to the system: “ All this-you tore a hole, pushed your arm through, hit the switch.” This sentence could serve as a warning label (or intellectual advertisement) of what the 71-year-old Canadian poet does to the classics, ripping them out of the past, shocking them back to life as if with electrical voltage, bringing the monsters of Greek myth to walk among us, slouch, punch, kiss, go back to bed, kill. 2),” Anne Carson depicts a soothing pastoral scene of two white horses in a field-a timeless, bucolic vignette. In her 2019 poem “Sappho Drives Upstate (Fr.
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