Anne Carson bibliography

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This is a bibliography of works by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor Anne Carson.

List of scholarship, poetry, essays, novels, scripts, libretti, plays, and comic books
Title Year Notes Ref.
Odi et Amo Ergo Sum 1981 Doctoral thesis;
"I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"		 [1]
Canicula di Anna 1984 Carson's first published poetry [2]
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay 1986 A reworking of Carson's doctoral thesis [3]
Short Talks 1992 2015 edition includes an introduction by Margaret Christakos,
and an afterword by Carson		 [4]
Glass, Irony, and God 1995 With an introduction by Guy Davenport;
includes "The Glass Essay"		 [5]
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry Includes Canicula di Anna, and selections from Short Talks [6]
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse 1998 Based on surviving fragments of the poem Geryoneis by Stesichorus [7]
Glass and God Includes Short Talks,
and selections from Glass, Irony, and God		 [8]
Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) 1999 Includes translations of poems by Simonides and Paul Celan [9]
Men in the Off Hours 2000 Includes epitaphs, poems, verse essays, and drafts of scripts [10]
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 2001 Dedicated to John Keats [11]
The Mirror of Simple Souls: An Opera Installation (Libretto) 2003 Handmade libretto; art and design by Kim Anno [12]
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera 2005 Includes The Mirror of Simple Souls [13]
Nox 2010 Includes translation of Catullus 101 [14]
Antigonick (Sophokles) 2012 A version of Antigone by Sophocles; illustrated by Bianca Stone;
2015 edition includes an introduction by Carson
("The Task of the Translator of Antigone")		 [15]
Red Doc> 2013 A follow-up to Autobiography of Red [16]
Nay Rather "Variations on the Right to Remain Silent"
(with seven translations of Ibycus Fragment 286), and
"By Chance the Cycladic People" illustrated by Lanfranco Quadrio		 [17]
The Albertine Workout 2014 On Albertine, a character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time;
art and design of One Crow Press edition by Kim Anno		 [18]
Float 2016 A collection of 22 chapbooks; includes texts of Nay Rather [19]
The Mile-Long Opera: A Biography of 7 O'Clock 2018 Libretto by Carson, with prose pieces by Claudia Rankine [20]
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy 2019 A version of Helen by Euripides,
drawing on the life of Marilyn Monroe		 [21]
The Trojan Women: A Comic 2021 A comic-book version of The Trojan Women by Euripides,
with artwork by Rosanna Bruno		 [22][23]
H of H Playbook About Herakles by Euripides, illustrated by Carson [24]
Wrong Norma 2024 As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That’s why I’ve called them ‘wrong.’” [25]
The Gender of Sound 2025 Originally published in Glass, Irony, and God [26]

Translations

List of translations of Ancient Greek texts
Title Year Source material Notes Ref.
Sophocles, Electra 2001 Electra by Sophocles With introduction and notes by Michael Shaw [27]
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho 2002 The poetry of Sappho With introduction and notes by Carson;
2019 Folio Society edition includes images by Jenny Holzer		 [28]
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Herakles, Hekabe, Hippolytos, Alkestis		 2006 Herakles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, and Alcestis
by Euripides		 With five prefaces, and a text by Carson
("Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra, by Euripides")		 [29]
An Oresteia
Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides		 2009 Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Electra by Sophocles
Orestes by Euripides		 With four introductions and a note by Carson [30]
Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians 2014 Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides With introduction by Glenn W. Most and Mark Griffith [31]
Sophokles, Antigone 2015 Antigone by Sophocles With a note by Carson [32]
Euripides, Bakkhai The Bacchae by Euripides With a note by Carson
("I Wish I Were Two Dogs Then I Could Play With Me")		 [33]

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