Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. The fascination with classical literature which dominates her work began to take root in high school. There, a Latin instructor introduced her to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored the future poet privately. Enrolling at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, she left twice—at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on Milton), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981. She also spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism at the University of St Andrews.
The Blaney Lecture: Anne Carson
Free Verse: Anne Carson
An Evening with Anne Carson
Holloway Reading Series - Anne Carson - April 17th 2013
Poet Anne Carson reads at the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize readings event
Anne Carson: Performing Antigonick
University of Toronto: Anne Carson, Convocation 2012 Honorary Degree recipient
Poet Anne Carson reads from Decreation
Anne Carson
Anne Carson at the 92nd Street Y
Blaney Lecture: Anne Carson
Anne Carson reads from Short Talks (Brick Books)
Presenting Nox by Anne Carson
Anne Carson - Antigonick
Plot
Protesting innocence (of course), 21-year-old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet-talking Melanee who (it's implied) makes unwanted lesbian advances toward Anne. The prison chaplain takes an interest in her case...or is it in her? As Anne meets the darker side of prison life, she learns that her greatest danger is the existence, somewhere out there, of unrecovered bank loot everyone thinks she hid.
Keywords: lesbian, lesbianism, women's-prison
What happens to girls without men?
What happens to women without men?
The shocking story of one man against 1,000 women!
The Blaney Lecture: Anne Carson
Free Verse: Anne Carson
An Evening with Anne Carson
Holloway Reading Series - Anne Carson - April 17th 2013
Poet Anne Carson reads at the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize readings event
Anne Carson: Performing Antigonick
University of Toronto: Anne Carson, Convocation 2012 Honorary Degree recipient
Poet Anne Carson reads from Decreation
Anne Carson
Anne Carson at the 92nd Street Y
Blaney Lecture: Anne Carson
Anne Carson reads from Short Talks (Brick Books)
Presenting Nox by Anne Carson
Anne Carson - Antigonick
Ruth Padel reading from Anne Carson's Red Doc
Review | Short Talks by Anne Carson
Anne Carson - Geffen Playhouse
Anne Carson: Reading from Nox
TPP2014 : Public Reading of Antigonick by Anne Carson at Sorbonne University
Poetry Project: Anne Carson
2017 DÉBUTE MAINTENANT : Conférence de Heather Anne Carson
Canada Reads Poetry: Nox by Anne Carson
Stanzas, sexes, seductions/ Estrofas, sexos, seducciones de Anne Carson
Carson Lueders Interview with Taylor-Ann Hasselhoff
SALLY ANN HOWES interview CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Jennifer Lawrence, Jack Nicholson Interruption Makes Waves After Oscars; Anne Hathaway on Big Win
Antigone: An Interview with Juliette Binoche
Ann Margret - Tonight Show - 1977
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan on Regis and Kathie Lee
Anne Carson with Brighde Mullins - 21 March 2001
ANN-MARGRET ON "THE TONIGHT SHOW" 80S #1
Dr. Anne Milne on "British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets"
MILDRED PIERCE - JOAN CRAWFORD's co- star ANN BLYTH shares memories of VEDA, JOAN & more
NBCC 2012 Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn
Elton John - Interview with Johnny Carson during November 6th, 1980
There's An Angry Son, He's Smilin' Grimly
at Me
he's Got A Gun In His Hand, He's Gonna
let Me See
i'm Gonna Run To Hide, Under The Fallen
tree
and I Scream,"why Can I Be?"
there's A Blue Old Man With A Gaping
mouth
he Wants To Swallow Me Up, He Wants
to Spit Me Out
he Takes Me To The Other Side, The Light
of His Mind
Born into a world I knew nothing of.
No concept of pain, I didn't know what it was.
But I was young, innocent, and so naive,
And I soon found out how it is.
Born into a world I knew nothing of.
No concept of pain, I didn't know what it was.
I thought I could trust, I thought I could lean
On this world, but I soon found out what it means...
...to fall face to the ground.
Try to get back up, pushed back down.
Outstretched hand, broken wrist.
One more name on my blacklist.
Didn't take me long to learn,
That if you trust, you get burned.
Put a name to my pain ... life.
Attempt after attempt, can my heart
Ever be free of contempt?
The scars in this flesh chronicle my life best,
Eternal memories of why I've come to this.
The thorn in my side, the knife stuck into my spine,
Never again to trust anyone.
Father, heal your angry son.
The portrait of hate, I stare myself in the face.
Mirror haunts, my fist bleeding, broken glass.
It twists, it writhes. It sinks it's teeth into my mind
Bending me against everyone.
Father, heal your angry son.
Please, set me free, I'm becoming the epitome
Of what I oppose.
Father take the pain. Blood of Your
Only Begotten paid ransom of my suffering.
To Your cross this albatross I bring.
Template life led long ago,
Son of God, cleanse my soul.
This hardened heart turn to clay.
nature of a lost generation, reality is blocked by the
fake visions*
a two faced game based upon the rat race, self
destruction
hurt each other with no reason, is it the sign of a
heartless season
our differences made our hearts stoned, a hostile
creation
who is pushing it, the industry seems getting high
profits on it
hate me, make me hate you, by the way we'll hate each
others too
feed the machines of greed, everthing is done in the
name of self defense
who started the war it doesn't matter keep on getting
lower
we all are the same, youth with no name
someone to blame? no one to blame!
angry son are you the one
in this world standing alone
these are the hard times, before
the storm, just look around
they don't want us to unite...
just look around
under the ground
we all are the same
(Spiritual in the backround)
Mending slowly,
all wounds,
Effortlessly as the burden of his sunken child is lifted,
but effortlessly again carried,
faintly to the stone heart of an angry son,
an angry son who has done his swallowing,
his memories are bitten pills,
so many bitten pills,
that he has collected,
like the fallen pieces of the broken ground which he now moves on,
the ground is so unsettled,
so endlessly unsettled,
he recounted,
with the weight of the sunken earth,
and still he moves on,
this is earth,
earth which he has moved on and collected,
settled to his own liking,
and still he moves on.
A voice in the back of his head reminding him,
that this is stolen,
that this is not his.
All these moments,
These precious time spent moments in gravity,
all this anxious waiting,
all this time spent waiting.
All this pain that you know,
all this effortless moving,
all this pain that you will ever know.
In waking hours,
time spent in these moments.
Though he is living,
silently in moments,
and forgiving relevance,
it is in his heart he is holding,
and calling behind sadness of empty fields.
It is in these moments of time well spent,
In these moments of gravity,
this time well spent,
a look to heaven,
sighing tears of angel's and a night sky
racing,
racing,
yelling softly,
this is the moment,
this is the moment.
A look to heaven,
sighing tears of angel's and a night sky,
this is the moment.
Holding moments and forgiving relevance,
it is in his heart,
calling behind sadness of empty fields.
it is in these moments,
of time well spent,
in these moments of gravity,
behind tired eyes,
behind tired eyes,
i think he's waiting,
knowing your destiny,
he calls him the angry son.
this is the moment,
this is the moment,
this is the moment,
this is the moment,
its hard to say,
running out of time,
they don't know me,
its hard to say,
they don't know me.
this is the next last moment.
i am the angry son,
i am the angry son,
i am the angry son,
i am the angry son.
this is the moment,
this is the moment,
i am the angry son,
i am the angry son.
i am the angry son,
i am the angry son.
Sighing tears of angel's and a night sky