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Eros the BittersweetAuthor: Anne Carson Latin American Literature Series February 1993 121 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback / cloth, 1-56478-030-9 / 1-56478-020-1 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $7.16—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins.
About the Author
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Anne Carson, twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry—the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of many books of poetry and criticism, including If Not, Winter; The Beauty of the Husband; Men in the Off Hours; Autobiography of Red; and Plainwater. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. |
Praise
"Anne Carson is a rare talent—brilliant and full of wit, passionate and also deeply moving."—Michael Ondaatje"Highly recommended."—Choice
"There is a fine beauty to the work, and it deserves reading."—Library Journal
"Carson, our new Emerson, haunts us with her troubling beautiful ambiguities and contradictions—enlivening and uplifting us thereby."—Oyster Boy Review