Anne Carson Quote

CHORUSMany are the shapes of things divine.Many are the unexpected acts of gods.What we imagined did not come to pass --God found a wayto be surprising.That's how this went.

Anne Carson

CHORUSMany are the shapes of things divine.Many are the unexpected acts of gods.What we imagined did not come to pass --God found a wayto be surprising.That's how this went.

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About Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.
Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton.
With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters.