Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) Of his ninety-two plays, eighteen survive--more than twice as many as survive from any other Greek tragedian. They include: Medea, Andromache, Cyclops, Electra, The Trojan Woman, Helen, The Phoenician Women Orestes, and The Bacchae. Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the Lannan Award; the Pushcart Prize; the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Author of many books, including Decreation and The Autobiography of Red, she currently teaches at the University of Michigan.
"The amazing poet Anne Carson offers a new translation of four
plays by Euripides, each of which unfurls in searing, plainspoken
English. Her essays and introductions are priceless." -Time Out
NY
"In Grief Lessons, the contemporary poet and classicist Anne
Carson's spare and beautiful new translation of four of Euripides'
lesser known tragedies, we have a kind of primer on the intrinsic
dangers of blind devotion to ideology." -The New Yorker
"An eclectic selection that provides an excellent introduction to
Euripides's range. Ms. Carson's Euripides is bleak, moving, and
provocative, offering a painful reminder of the resonance of these
ancient plays with our own times." -The New York Sun
"Grief Lessons...reminds us that the difference between competent
and inspired translation is more than a matter of even bravura
technical competence. It involves a kind of discreet union between
writer and translator, a certain convergence of aesthetic impulse
and intellectual inclination. The issue of such a union can take a
reader's breath away because it just seems so right--a work that
stands firmly on its own but is somehow contented to be the sum of
its parts. Carson's is, in other words, an altogether worthy
heir...It's a reasonable and reasonably provocative contemporary
reading." -The Los Angeles Times
"Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the
unforgiving classical world, Carson..is nothing less than
brilliant--unfalteringly sharp in diction, audacious and judicious
in taking liberties...Worth the price of admission alone is
Carson's blistering essay afterword, written in Euripides's
voice...This amazing book gets very close to the playwright's
enigmatic answers." -Publishers Weekly*
"The amazing poet Anne Carson offers a new translation of four
plays by Euripides, each of which unfurls in searing, plainspoken
English. Her essays and introductions are priceless." -Time Out
NY
"In Grief Lessons, the contemporary poet and classicist Anne
Carson's spare and beautiful new translation of four of Euripides'
lesser known tragedies, we have a kind of primer on the intrinsic
dangers of blind devotion to ideology." -The New Yorker
"An eclectic selection that provides an excellent introduction to
Euripides's range. Ms. Carson's Euripides is bleak, moving, and
provocative, offering a painful reminder of the resonance of these
ancient plays with our own times." -The New York Sun
"Grief Lessons...reminds us that the difference between
competent and inspired translation is more than a matter of even
bravura technical competence. It involves a kind of discreet union
between writer and translator, a certain convergence of aesthetic
impulse and intellectual inclination. The issue of such a union can
take a reader's breath away because it just seems so right--a work
that stands firmly on its own but is somehow contented to be the
sum of its parts. Carson's is, in other words, an altogether worthy
heir...It's a reasonable and reasonably provocative contemporary
reading." -The Los Angeles Times
"Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the
unforgiving classical world, Carson..is nothing less than
brilliant--unfalteringly sharp in diction, audacious and judicious
in taking liberties...Worth the price of admission alone is
Carson's blistering essay afterword, written in Euripides's
voice...This amazing book gets very close to the playwright's
enigmatic answers." -Publishers Weekly*
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