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How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother
How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother
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54 minutes
Released:
Feb 18, 2024
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This week on Writers & Company from the Archives, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar and librettist, Anne Carson. The author of Autobiography of Red and its sequel Red Doc> is also the first and only two-time winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2011 about her book Nox — an elegy to her brother and a moving reflection on absence
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Feb 18, 2024
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Podcast episode
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