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She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.Trotsky reviewed her in and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.Fog choked the city.Russia's great poets were all about 35 years olScraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun.

Anne Carson

She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.Trotsky reviewed her in and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.Fog choked the city.Russia's great poets were all about 35 years olScraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun.

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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.