ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so
marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
"A profound love story...sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and
tender." --The New York Times Book Review
"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book.... [Carson] exposes
with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive
everyday." --The Village Voice
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