A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone, ' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a...

A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.

"Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks," "essays," or "verse narratives"--Combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of...

In For Sun's Portion Is Toil All His Days, she writes: "Look: up every bone every sky every day every you-- / He goes working His / way up blue earlobes from ocean goes / thrown by rosesudden someone's / already tomorrow goes riding His bed of daysided gold goes / skimming / sleep countries from west to east until sudden / rosestopped someone's / already earliness opens the back of the clock: / He steps in."