![]() ![]() ![]() This past weekend, Carson reprised three lectures on aesthetics over two days at the Brooklyn Public Library, tickets for which had been sold out weeks prior. ![]() Despite her being a scholar of the esoteric herself (she was a professor of Classics at McGill University and the University of Michigan until recently), her work is considered a gateway drug for people attempting to get into ancient Greek literature, apart from its own laudable, unique merits. Chances are you’ve already read her without even knowing it: If you used Tumblr during the platform’s peak, Carson’s translation of Sappho’s fragments, If Not, Winter, was a recurring staple of the poetry and literature communities. Anne Carson’s poetry breathes life and renewed interest into the obscure and the forgettable. ![]()
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