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Anne Carson writes, ""Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up.""

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For two decades Carson's work has moved-phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project-in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world. -- Sam Anderson - The New York Times Magazine Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer. -- Susan Sontag The poetry in her translation is light, swift, and beautiful. -- The New Yorker Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today. -- Michael Ondaatje

"""For two decades Carson's work has moved-phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project-in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world."" -- Sam Anderson - The New York Times Magazine ""Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer."" -- Susan Sontag ""The poetry in her translation is light, swift, and beautiful."" -- The New Yorker ""Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."" -- Michael Ondaatje"

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Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ""Genius"" Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.

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