When I desire you a part of me is gone.
Anne Carson Quotes
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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| Birth: | 21st June, 1950 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Poet, Professor, Translator, Writer |
About
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981. She is Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at New York University and was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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