Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Joshua Marie
Wilkinson
Anne Carson’s Stereoscopic Poetics / Jessica Fisher
What Kind of Monster Am I? / Dan Beachy-Quick
Living on the Edge: The Bittersweet Place of Poetry / Martin Corless-Smith
Reading Carson Reading Brontë RE: The Soul’s Difficult Sexual Destiny / Brian Teare
The Gender of Sound: No Witness, No Words (or Song)? / Virginia Konchan
On Anne Carson’s Short Talks / Timothy Liu
How Is a Pilgrim Like a Soldier? Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela” / Christine Hume
The Unbearable Withness of Being: On Anne Carson’s Plainwater / Kristi Maxwell
The Pilgrim and the Anthropologist / Jennifer K. Dick
Masters of the Open Secret: Meditations on Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red / Harmony Holiday
Who Can a Monster Blame for Being Red? Three Fragments on the Academic and the “Other” in Autobiography of Red / Bruce Beasley
“Some Affluence”: Reading Wallace Stevens with Anne Carson’s Economy of the Unlost / Graham Foust
To Gesture at Absence: A Reading-With / Karla Kelsey
“Parts of Time Fall on Her”: Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours / Richard Greenfield
Lacuna Is for Reign / Douglas A. Martin
The Light of This Wound: Marriage, Longing, Desire in Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband / Andrea Rexilius
Who with Her Tears Soaks Mortal Streaming: Anne Carson and Wonderwater / J. Michael Martinez
Antagonistic Collaborations, Tender Questions: On Anne Carson’s Answer Scars / Roni Horn’s Wonderwater / Hannah Ensor
Opera Povera: Decreation, an Opera in Three Parts / Cole Swensen
“To Undo the Creature”: The Paradox of Writing in Anne Carson’s Decreation / Johanna Skibsrud
No Video: On Anne Carson / Julie Carr
X inside an X / Ander Monson
Sentences on Nox / Eleni
Sikelianos
Your Soul Is Blowing Apart: Antigonick and the Influence of Collaborative Process / Bianca Stone
“Standing in / the Nick of Time”: Antigonick in Seven Short Takes / Andrew Zawacki
What’s So Funny about Antigonick? / Vanessa Place
From Geryon to G: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> and the Avatar / Lily Hoang
An Antipoem That Condenses Everything: Anne Carson’s Translations of the Fragments of Sappho / Elizabeth Robinson
Sappho and the “Papyrological Event” / John Melillo
Bringing the House Down: Trojan Horses and Other Malware in Anne Carson’s Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides / Kazim Ali
Lessons in Grief and Corruption: Anne Carson’s Translations of Euripides / Erika L. Weiberg
The “Dread Work” of Lyric: Anne Carson’s An Oresteia / Angela Hume
Collaborating on Decreation: An Interview with Anne Carson / Peter Streckfus
Contributors