{"title":"Ann Carson","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, recognizing a remarkable body of work that has transformed the possibilities of contemporary poetry\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"h-of-h-playbook","title":"H of H playbook","description":"\"H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous \"Labors of Herakles\") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome. \"I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape,\" said Anselm Kiefer, painter of forests grown tall on bones\"--","brand":"Raincoast Book Dist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607750541586,"sku":"9780811231237","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/22696333482476.jpg?v=1791476259"},{"product_id":"red-doc","title":"Red Doc\u003e","description":"\u003cb\u003eInternationally celebrated poet Anne Carson's critically acclaimed follow-up to her highly successful\u003ci\u003e Autobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes its mythic boy-hero into the twenty-first century to tell a story all its own of love, loss, and the power of memory. For Carson's substantial following and general poetry readers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e     To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. In this stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, now called \"G,\" into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover Sad (short for \"Sad But Great\"), a haunted war veteran; and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the somber housewhere G's mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful verse picaresque invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.","brand":"Penguin Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607868342546,"sku":"9780771018213","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/13767153482462.jpg?v=1791483043"},{"product_id":"decreation","title":"Decreation Poetry","description":"In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates “decreation”–an activity described by Simone Weil as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Carson’s \u003ci\u003eDecreation\u003c\/i\u003e starts with form–the undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, rapture. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe.","brand":"Penguin Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607868375314,"sku":"9780676978612","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/202213482429.jpg?v=1791483045"},{"product_id":"the-beauty-of-the-husband-1","title":"The Beauty of the Husband","description":"The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating. --","brand":"Penguin Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607868408082,"sku":"9780676974751","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/163603482429.jpg?v=1791483046"},{"product_id":"plainwater","title":"Plainwater: essays and poetry","description":"From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differences between \"I\" and \"you,\" and between the modern and the classical, in a voice that shatters convention with its integrity and clarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarson envisions a present-day interview with a 7th- century BC poet; lectures on subjects as diverse as hedonism and Ovid; imagines a 15th-century painter's muse at a phenomenology conference in Italy; and in the final section presents a poetic travelogue of a woman's life that beautifully contemplates the difference between the sexes. \u003ci\u003ePlainwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning collection.","brand":"Penguin Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607869128978,"sku":"9780676972740","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/143493482429.jpg?v=1791483348"},{"product_id":"men-in-the-off-hours","title":"Men in the Off Hours","description":"Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In \u003cb\u003eMen in the Off Hours\u003c\/b\u003e, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon, she sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final prose poem, Carson meditates movingly on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that \"the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection,\" \u003cb\u003eMen in the Off Hours\u003c\/b\u003e shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.","brand":"Penguin Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607869194514,"sku":"9780676973563","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/3429\/3266\/files\/151723482429.jpg?v=1791483349"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookstore.ubc.ca\/collections\/ann-carson.oembed","provider":"UBC Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}