Antigonick

"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 "She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern." -- Washington Square News "People who don't read poetry read Anne Carson." -- Deborah Landau "She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag "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 "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 " 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 "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 "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob "Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in Antigonick), 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 "Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature." -- The Rumpus "Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment." -- The New Inquiry "Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." -- Critical Mob