Antigonick (New Directions Paperbook)

She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.--Susan Sontag

Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.--Richard Bernstein

The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost.

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

Carson is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties.

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.

She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern.

People who don't read poetry read Anne Carson.--Deborah Landau

Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking.

In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose.