Antigonick
“She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.” (Susan Sontag)“Carson is nothing less than brilliant—unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties.” (Publishers Weekly)“Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.” (Richard Bernstein - The New York Times)“Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful.” (The New Yorker)“The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost.” (The Times Literary Supplement)“It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late.” (Judith Butler - Public Books)“Such light-handed scholarship is characteristic of Carson, a poet interested in those moments when precedents can't be found and normal translations fail.” (The Guardian)“Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing–she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version.” (The Guardian)“Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking.” (The Oxonian Review)“A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel.” (Slate)“[Antigonick] is both riveting and humorous. Bianca Stone's illustrations are immediate and visceral, and Robert Currie's overall book design has elegance and strength.” (The Globe and Mail)“Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text makeAntigonicka beautiful object.” (livemint.com & The Wall Street Journal)“Carson and Stone have crafted something of an entirely new spirit.” (Guernica)“In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose.” (KGB Bar Lit Magazine)“Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve.” (National Post)“Antigonickplays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature.” (The Rumpus)“Antigonickis as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance ofAntigonein Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative.” (Critical Mob)“The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable.” (The Independent)“Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this inAntigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you.” (Full Stop)“Carson'sAntigonickis wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way.” (Thestar.com)“This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods.” (New Statesman)“Antigonickhas arrived at the right cultural moment.” (The New Inquiry)“One of the best designed books of the year and a unique reading experience.” (Suicide Girls)