![]() In "TV Men" ( Glass and God), Carson plays with Hector and the Trojan War in an inventive and resonant treatment of mythic material interwoven with the shooting of a TV show in Death Valley. This is not her first investigation of myth. ![]() ![]() Carson writes over the Greek myth of Geryon and Herakles with special reference to Stesichorus' account, which only survives in fragments. Her new work Autobiography of Red, a novel in verse, revisits themes and tropes from the earlier collections and has been described by Michael Ondaatje as "a wonderful mongrel work, a strange and ambitious bridge between classical texts and contemporary autobiographical poetry". At her best, Carson uses language with wit and clarity, displaying an openness and inclusiveness grounded in a gracefully worn erudition. Her most recent collection of poetry, Glass and God (Cape Poetry 1998), is both polished and passionate, with a range of reference spanning personal crisis, the life of the Brontes, Greek and Biblical myth and modern urban life. A NNE CARSON is an acclaimed Canadian poet whose work has also been published in the U.K. ![]()
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