Anne Carson bibliography

This is a bibliography of works by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor Anne Carson.

Writings

List of scholarship, poetry, essays, novels, scripts, libretti, plays, and comic books

Title	Year	Notes	Ref.
Odi et Amo Ergo Sum	1981	Doctoral thesis; "I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"	[1]
Canicula di Anna	1984	Carson's first published poetry	[2]
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay	1986	A reworking of Carson's doctoral thesis	[3]
Short Talks	1992	2015 edition includes an introduction by Margaret Christakos, and an afterword by Carson	[4]
Glass, Irony, and God	1995	With an introduction by Guy Davenport; includes "The Glass Essay"	[5]
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry		Includes Canicula di Anna, and selections from Short Talks	[6]
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse	1998	Based on surviving fragments of the poem Geryoneis by Stesichorus	[7]
Glass and God		Includes Short Talks, and selections from Glass, Irony, and God	[8]
Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)	1999	Includes translations of poems by Simonides and Paul Celan	[9]
Men in the Off Hours	2000	Includes epitaphs, poems, verse essays, and drafts of scripts	[10]
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos	2001	Dedicated to John Keats	[11]
The Mirror of Simple Souls: An Opera Installation (Libretto)	2003	Handmade libretto; art and design by Kim Anno	[12]
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera	2005	Includes The Mirror of Simple Souls	[13]
Nox	2010	Includes translation of Catullus 101	[14]
Antigonick (Sophokles)	2012	A version of Antigone by Sophocles; illustrated by Bianca Stone; 2015 edition includes an introduction by Carson ("The Task of the Translator of Antigone")	[15]
Red Doc>	2013	A follow-up to Autobiography of Red	[16]
Nay Rather		"Variations on the Right to Remain Silent" (with seven translations of Ibycus Fragment 286), and "By Chance the Cycladic People" illustrated by Lanfranco Quadrio	[17]
The Albertine Workout	2014	On Albertine, a character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time; art and design of One Crow Press edition by Kim Anno	[18]
Float	2016	A collection of 22 chapbooks; includes texts of Nay Rather	[19]
The Mile-Long Opera: A Biography of 7 O'Clock	2018	Libretto by Carson, with prose pieces by Claudia Rankine	[20]
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy	2019	A version of Helen by Euripides, drawing on the life of Marilyn Monroe	[21]
The Trojan Women: A Comic	2021	A comic-book version of The Trojan Women by Euripides, with artwork by Rosanna Bruno	[22][23]
H of H Playbook		About Herakles by Euripides, illustrated by Carson	[24]
Wrong Norma	2024	As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That’s why I’ve called them ‘wrong.’”	[25]

Translations

List of translations of Ancient Greek texts

Title	Year	Source material	Notes	Ref.
Sophocles, Electra	2001	Electra by Sophocles	With introduction and notes by Michael Shaw	[26]
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho	2002	The poetry of Sappho	With introduction and notes by Carson; 2019 Folio Society edition includes images by Jenny Holzer	[27]
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides Herakles, Hekabe, Hippolytos, Alkestis	2006	Herakles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, and Alcestis by Euripides	With five prefaces, and a text by Carson ("Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra, by Euripides")	[28]
An Oresteia Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides	2009	Agamemnon by Aeschylus Electra by Sophocles Orestes by Euripides	With four introductions and a note by Carson	[29]
Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians	2014	Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides	With introduction by Glenn W. Most and Mark Griffith	[30]
Sophokles, Antigone	2015	Antigone by Sophocles	With a note by Carson	[31]
Euripides, Bakkhai		The Bacchae by Euripides	With a note by Carson ("I Wish I Were Two Dogs Then I Could Play With Me")	[32]

Contributions

Books and broadsides

List of contributions to books and broadsides

Title	Year	Publication and notes	Type	Ref.
"How Bad a Poem is Semonides Fragment I?"	1984	Greek Poetry and Philosophy: Studies in Honour of Leonard Woodbury Edited by Douglas E. Gerber	Scholarship	[33]
"Syracuse and the Monies of Simonides"	1989	Syracuse, the Fairest Greek City: Ancient Art from the Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Paolo Orsi' Edited by Bonna Daix Wescoat	Essay	[34]
"Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire"	1990	Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World Edited by David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin	Essay	[35]
"Simonides Painter"	1992	Innovations of Antiquity Edited by Ralph Hexter and Daniel Selden	Essay	[36]
"Screaming in Translation: The Elektra of Sophokles"	1996	Sophocles' "Electra" in Performance Edited by Francis M. Dunn	Essay	[37]
"Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho I"		Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches Edited by Ellen Greene	Essay	[38]
"Sappho Shock"	1997	Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry Edited by Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber	Essay	[39]
"The Gender of Sound"	1998	Cassandra: Voices from the Inside Edited by Freda Guttman	Essay	[40]
"Dirt and Desire: The Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity"	1999	Constructions of the Classical Body Edited by James I. Porter	Essay	[41]
"Quadrat I and II"	2000	Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies Edited by Jim Shepard	Poetry	[42]
"Strange Hour, Outcast Hour"	2001	The Threepenny Review Broadside designed by Noreen Fukumori; alongside excerpt from "On the Strange, the Weird, and the Uncanny" by Adam Phillips	Broadside	[43]
"Answer Scars: My Roni Horn Project, An Optional Comic, by AC"	2004	Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) by Roni Horn Includes "Hö Comix" insert by Carson	Poetry	[44]
"Soundtrack"		Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film Edited by Ian Balfour and Atom Egoyan	Writings	[45]
"Introduction"	2006	It by Inger Christensen Translated by Susanna Nied	Preface	[46]
"Fourth Choral Ode from Euripides' Hippolytos"		Broadside designed by Lettre Sauvage	Broadside	[47]
"could", "double", "her", "then", "too"	2009	Roni Horn aka Roni Horn: Subject Index Edited by Beth Huseman	Poetry	[48]
"The Little Maid and the Gentleman, or, We Are Seven, William Wordsworth"	2011	Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 Edited by Caro Llewellyn	Poetry	[49]
"The Goat at Midnight"		Sixty-Six Books: 21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible In response to the Book of Jude; edited by Christopher Haydon, Rachel Holmes, Ben Power, and Josie Rourke	Poetry	[50]
"Pinplay"		Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae A version of Euripides' The Bacchae, alongside contributions by Christopher Bedford and Richard Meyer; edited by Anne Bremner	Poetry	[51]
"The Withness of the Body"	2012	Boat by Laurie Anderson Alongside contributions by Anderson, and Lou Reed	Poetry	[52]
"The Artist Searches etc. Water Log"		Jim Shaw: The Rinse Cycle With Robert Currie; edited by Laurence Sillars	Poetry	[53]
"Flotage (Border)"	2013	Janet Werner: Another Perfect Day Alongside contributions by David Balzer and John Kissick; edited by Meeka Walsh	Poetry	[54]
"Good Dog I, II, III"	2014	Jürgen Partenheimer: Das Archiv – The Archive In response to Partenheimer's "Kalliope I, II, III"; edited by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen	Poetry	[55]
"Bluish"	2015	The Blue of Distance Alongside contributions by Rebecca Solnit and Courtenay Finn; edited by Sarah Stephenson	Poetry	[56]
"Collaborating on Decreation: An Interview with Anne Carson"		Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre Interview with Peter Streckfus	Interview	[57]
"Hack Gloss"		Hack Wit by Roni Horn	Poetry	[58]
"This Bird That Never Settles: A Virtual Conversation with Anne Carson about Greek Tragedy"; includes "Quicktime Prometheus"		The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas Interview with Yopie Prins; edited by Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine	Interview & Poetry	[59]
"Sappho Drives Upstate (Fr. 2)"		Freeman's: Arrival Edited by John Freeman	Poetry	[60]
"Suppose a Lone Man"		John Skoog: Slow Return. Värn Alongside contributions by Rainer Fuchs, Klaus Görner, Andréa Tavie Picard and Amalie Smith; edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Karola Kraus	Poetry	[61]
"Good Dog I, II, III"		Jürgen Partenheimer: Calliope Edited by Anne-Claire Schumacher	Poetry	[62]
"Letter to Krito"	2017	Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison Edited by James Lingwood and Michael Morris	Poetry	[63]
"Poverty Remix (Sestina)"	2018	Beggars by Andrea Büttner Alongside contributions by Christopher P. Heuer and Linda Nochlin	Poetry	[64]
"Part II: Handful of Dirt"		Antigone Undone by Will Aitken Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson and Ivo van Hove interview	Interview	[65]
"Do Not Believe Your Thoughts Said Paisios of Mt Athos"	2019	The Great Tamer by Dimitris Papaioannou With photographs by Julian Mommert	Poetry	[66]
"Unofficial Transcripts of Notes Taken During the Q&A Following the Pig Lake Seminar (Ragnar Contra Nietzsche), April 2019, With Participants Bertolt Brecht, Simon Critchley, Geoff Dyer, Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, Lou Salomé, Slavoj Žižek"	2020	Looking Writing Reading Looking: Writers on Art from the Louisiana Collection In response to Me and My Mother by Ragnar Kjartansson; edited by Stephen Lund	Poetry	[67]
"A Rustle of Catullus"		Cy Twombly: Making Past Present Alongside contributions by Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes, and Mary Jacobus; edited by Christine Kondoleon and Kate Nesin	Essay	[68]

Journals and literary magazines

List of contributions to journals and literary magazines

Title	Year	Publication	Type	Ref.
"Some Greeks: Fragments of Greek Papyri"	1979	Invisible City	Translation	[69]
"Aphrodite and After"	1980	Phoenix	Scholarship	[70]
"The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho Fr. 1"		Transactions of the American Philological Association	Scholarship	[71]
"Wedding at Noon in Pindar’s Ninth Pythian"	1982	Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies	Scholarship	[72]
"The Burners: A Reading of Bacchylides' Third Epinician Ode"	1984	Phoenix	Scholarship	[73]
"Conversations with the Confused: Cold Feet"	1985	New Muses	Poetry	[74]
"The Fall of Rome: A Traveller's Guide"		Canadian Literature	Poetry	[75]
"Three Poems"	1986	North Dakota Quarterly	Poetry	[76]
"Echo with No Door on Her Mouth: A National Refraction Though Sophokles, Plato, and Defoe"		Stanford Literature Review	Essay	[77]
"Short Talks"		Planetarium Station	Poetry	[78]
"Short Talks"	1987	Bomb	Poetry	[79]
"Short Talks"		Southwest Review	Poetry	[80]
"Kinds of Water"		Grand Street	Poetry	[81]
"Chez l'Oxymoron"	1988	Grand Street	Essay	[82]
"A Dangerous Affair"		The New York Times Book Review	Poetry	[83]
"Simonides Negative"		Arethusa	Essay	[84]
"Review: The Nature of Early Greek Lyric: Three Preliminary Studies by R. L. Fowler"	1989	The Classical Journal	Review	[85]
"The Life of Towns"		Grand Street	Essay	[86]
"Just for the Thrill: Sycophantizing Aristotle's Poetics"	1990	Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics	Essay	[87]
"Now What?"		Grand Street	Translation & Poetry	[88]
"Short Talks"		The Yale Review	Poetry	[89]
"Alphabetic Edge"	1991	The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild Newsletter	Poetry	[90]
"Short Talks"		Descant	Poetry	[91]
"Catullus: Carmina translated by Anne Carson"	1992	The American Poetry Review	Translation & Poetry	[92]
"The Brainsex Paintings: Mimnermos (Translation, Essay, Interview)"		Raritan	Poetry & Essay	[93]
"How Not to Read a Poem: Unmixing Simonides from Protagoras"		Classical Philology	Essay	[94]
"Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother"		Descant	Poetry	[95]
"The Truth About God: Seventeen Poems"	1993	The American Poetry Review	Poetry	[96]
"Catullus: Carmina"		Pearl	Translation & Poetry	[97]
"Your Money or Your Life"		Yale Journal of Criticism	Essay	[98]
"Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings: A Translation of the Fragments of Mimnermos of Kolophon"		Quarterly Review of Literature: Contemporary Poetry Series	Poetry & Essay	[99]
"The Glass Essay"	1994	Raritan	Poetry	[100]
"The Autobiography of Red"		Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose	Poetry	[101]
"The Fall of Rome: A Traveller's Guide"		Pequod	Poetry	[102]
"The Gender of Sound: Description, Definition and Mistrust of the Female Voice in Western Culture"		Resources for Feminist Research	Essay	[103]
"The Gender of Sound"		Thamyris	Essay	[104]
"Hero"		Index: The Montreal Literary Calendar	Poetry	[105]
"Red Meat: What Difference Did Stesichorus Make?"	1995	Raritan	Essay	[106]
"Economy"		Village Voice Literary Supplement	Poetry	[107]
"Short Talk on Chromoluminism"		The New York Times	Poetry	[108]
"Shoes: An Essay on How Plato's Symposium Begins"		The Iowa Review	Essay	[109]
"TV Men: Hektor"		Raritan	Poetry	[110]
"The Truth About God: Six Poems"	1996	The American Poetry Review	Poetry	[111]
"Simonides and the Art of Negative Attention"		Brick: A Literary Journal	Essay	[112]
"That Strength", "Methinks the Poor Town Has Been Troubled Too Long", "Visit"		Parnassus	Poetry	[113]
"Jaget"		Chicago Review	Poetry	[114]
"TV Men: Tolstoy"		Raritan	Poetry	[115]
"TV Men: Artaud"		The Iowa Review	Poetry	[116]
"Natures"		Exquisite Corpse	Poetry	[117]
"TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script)"		Colorado Review	Poetry	[118]
"Writing on the World: Simonides, Exactitude and Paul Celan"		Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics	Essay	[119]
"Anne Carson: The Matrix Interview"		Matrix	Interview	[120]
"Ice Blink"	1997	Raritan	Poetry	[121]
"Gift", "Lines", "That Strength", "Would Be Her 50th Wedding Anniversary Today", "Methinks the Poor Town Has Been Troubled Too Long"		Ambit Magazine	Poetry	[122]
"Despite Her Pain, Another Day"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[123]
"Lines"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[124]
"TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[125]
"Economy, Its Fragrance"		The Threepenny Review	Essay	[126]
"Artaud Script / Artaud Week"		Trois	Poetry	[127]
"TV Men: Lazarus"		Parnassus	Poetry	[128]
"Irony is Not Enough: Essay on My Life as Catherine Deneuve"		Seneca Review	Poetry	[129]
"Why Did I Wake Alone Among the Sleepers (Visibles and Invisibles in Simonides and Celan)"		Seneca Review	Essay	[130]
"A Symposium on Translation"		The Threepenny Review	Essay	[131]
"A ___ with Anne Carson"		The Iowa Review	Interview	[132]
"Chaldaic Oracles 1"		The Iowa Review	Poetry	[133]
"Shadowboxer"		Chicago Review	Poetry	[134]
"A Talk With Anne Carson"		Brick: A Literary Journal	Interview	[135]
"Ordinary Time: Virginia Woolf and Thucydides on War"		Brick: A Literary Journal	Poetry	[136]
"TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script)"		Colorado Review	Poetry	[137]
"Father's Old Blue Cardigan"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[138]
"New Rule"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[139]
"Handbook for William (Liber Manualis) by Dhuoda, translated by Carol Neel"	1998	Brick: A Literary Journal	Review	[140]
"Strange Hour (Outcast Hour)"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[141]
"All Debts Owed to Death: Economy in Simonides and Celan"		Parnassus	Essay	[142]
"Hopper: Confessions"		Raritan	Poetry	[143]
"Ordinary Time: Virginia Woolf and Thucydides on War"		Fence	Poetry	[144]
"Semaine d'Artaud"		Conjunctions	Poetry	[145]
"TV Men: Lenz in China"		Descant	Poetry	[146]
"No Port Now"		The New Republic	Poetry	[147]
"TV Men: Thucydides in Conversation with Virginia Woolf on the Set of The Peloponnesian War"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[148]
"Helen"		Boston Review	Poetry	[149]
"Victory Must Be Supremely Glorious Experience Said a Woman to the Duke of Wellington"		Boston Review	Poetry	[150]
"False Sail"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[151]
"Old Home"		Metre	Poetry	[152]
"And Kneeling at the Edge of the Transparent Sea I Shall Shape for Myself a New Heart from Salt and Mud"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[153]
"Essay on What I Think About the Most" "Essay on Error (2nd Draft)"	1999	Raritan	Poetry	[154]
"Economy, Its Fragrance"		Brick: A Literary Review	Poetry	[155]
"Longing, a Documentary"		Brick: A Literary Review	Poetry	[156]
"Oedipus' Nap"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[157]
"TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script)"		PN Review	Poetry	[158]
"The Idea of a University (after John Henry Newman)"		The Threepenny Review	Essay	[159]
"Her Beckett"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[160]
"Nothing For It"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[161]
"My Show"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[162]
"Betty Goodwin Seated Figure with Red Angle"		Artforum	Poetry	[163]
"Interview with Anne Carson"		Satellite	Interview	[164]
"PWInterview: Anne Carson"	2000	Publishers Weekly	Interview	[165]
"Longing, a Documentary: Shot List"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[166]
"Four Poems from 'The Beauty of the Husband'"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[167]
"Fragment 96 LP"		Jubilat	Translation	[168]
"Dhuoda's Mirror"		The Threepenny Review	Review	[169]
"Decreation: An Opera in Three Parts"		Parnassus	Poetry	[170]
"Simonides and the Art of Negative Attention"		Brick: A Literary Review	Essay	[171]
"Fragment 98a, 98b"		The Globe and Mail	Translation	[172]
"Bindings"		Satellite	Poetry	[173]
"from Decreation: An Opera in Three Parts"		Fence	Poetry	[174]
"Heloise and Abelard: A Screenplay in 11 Scenes"	2001	Black Warrior Review	Poetry	[175]
"Guillermo's Sigh Symphony"		New Delta Review	Poetry	[176]
"Longing, a Visual Primer"		Art on Paper	Poetry	[177]
"TV Men: Beckett"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[178]
"Opposed Glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[179]
"from Sleep Plan"		Brick: A Literary Review	Poetry	[180]
"Frusta: Houseman, Sappho, Stoppard and the Uses of Cold Water"		Lincoln Center Theater Review	Poetry	[181]
"Foam (Essay on Rhapsody): On the Sublime in Longinus and Antonioni"		Conjunctions	Poetry	[182]
"Foam (Essay on Rhapsody): On the Sublime in Longinus and Antonioni", "The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum"		Brick: A Literary Review	Poetry	[183]
"When Words Don't Fail"		Artforum	Poetry	[184]
"Beauty Prefers an Edge"		Poets and Writers	Interview	[185]
"Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[186]
"Woman of Letters"		Canadian Writer’s Yearbook	Interview	[187]
"High Class(ical), An Interview with Poet and Classicist Anne Carson"		Satellite	Interview	[188]
"Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God"	2002	Common Knowledge	Poetry	[189]
"Opposed Glimpse"		Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[190]
"Guillermo's Sigh Symphony"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[191]
"The Mirror of Simple Souls: An Opera Installation Libretto"		The Kenyon Review	Poetry	[192]
"And Reason Remains Undaunted"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[193]
"Ode to the Sublime Monica Vitti"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[194]
"Outwardly His Life Ran Smoothly", "Longinus' Dream of Antonioni"		Raritan	Poetry	[195]
"Swimming in Circles in Copenhagen: A Sonnet Sequence for Peter, Martin & Pejk"		Five Fingers Review	Poetry	[196]
"Swimming Circles in Copenhagen: A Sonnet Sequence", "Spring Break: Swallow Song"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[197]
"Euripides to the Audience*"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[198]
"Kant's Question About Monica Vitti"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[199]
"Ice-Pleasure"		Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis	Poetry	[200]
"TV Men: Tolstoy"		Tolstoy Studies Journal	Poetry	[201]
"Blended Text"		Fence	Poetry	[202]
"Detail from the Tomb of the Diver"	2003	The Believer	Poetry	[203]
"Gnosticism-I"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[204]
"Guillermo's Sigh Symphony"		Canadian Literature	Poetry	[205]
"Gifts and Questions: An Interview with Anne Carson"		Canadian Literature	Interview	[206]
"Swimming at Noon Always Reminds Me of Marilyn Monroe – Etruscan Saying"		Convivium	Poetry	[207]
"Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions"		Canadian Literature	Poetry	[208]
"Beckett's Theory of Tragedy", "Beckett's Theory of Comedy"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[209]
"The Mirror of Simple Souls: An Opera Installation"		Ruminator Review	Poetry	[210]
"Totality: The Color of Eclipse"		Cabinet	Poetry	[211]
"How to Like 'If I Told Him A Completed Portrait of Picasso' by Gertrude Stein"	2004	The Threepenny Review	Essay	[212]
"Decreation: An Excerpt from an Opera in Three Parts"		Landfall	Poetry	[213]
"Every Exit Is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)"		Prairie Fire	Essay	[214]
"Lots of Guns (An Oratorio for [4] Voices)"		Gulf Coast	Poetry	[215]
"Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88"		The Paris Review	Interview	[216]
"The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum (Rhapsody)"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[217]
"Detail from the Tomb of the Diver (Paestum 500-543 B.C.) Second Detail"		Decipherment of Linear X	Poetry	[218]
"Water, Still"		Prairie Fire	Poetry	[219]
"On Discovering at Dinner that Adam Zagajewski and I Share a Birthday"	2005	London Review of Books	Poetry	[220]
"Two Translations of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' 1072-1330"		London Review of Books	Translation	[221]
"The Beat Goes On"		The New York Review of Books	Translation	[222]
"Zeus Bits"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[223]
"Shot List"		Michigan Quarterly Review	Poetry	[224]
"On Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry"	2006	The Threepenny Review	Essay	[225]
"Grasscolored: A Threat Documentary"		Subtropics	Poetry	[226]
"Zeus Bits"		Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[227]
"Beuyskreuz"		Conjunctions	Poetry	[228]
"Two Poems by Emile Nelligan"		London Review of Books	Translation	[229]
"Walks for Boys and Girls"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[230]
"Hekabe"		The American Poetry Review	Translation & Preface	[231]
"Epilogos, from It"		The American Poetry Review	Poetry & Preface	[232]
"O Ister"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[233]
"Alive That Time"	2007	London Review of Books	Poetry	[234]
"More Zeus Bits"		Bomb	Poetry	[235]
"Triple Sonnet of the Plush Pony"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[236]
"Émile Nelligan: 'Crows,' 'Funeral Marches,' 'Hospital Night Dream,' & 'Night Confession'"		Gulf Coast	Translation	[237]
"Deer (Not a Play)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[238]
"Excerpt from An Oresteia"	2008	Tin House	Translation	[239]
"Short Talk on Someone Coming Out of a Tomb Laughing"		Reading Between A&B	Poetry	[240]
"Necks"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[241]
"Variations on the Right to Remain Silent"		A Public Space	Essay	[242]
"Tag"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[243]
"Twelve-Minute Prometheus (After Aiskhylos)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[244]
"Contempts"	2009	Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics	Essay	[245]
"Burners Go Raw"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[246]
"Finally April and the Birds Are Falling Out of the Air with Joy"		Boston Review	Poetry	[247]
"Life of Spinoza"		Chicago Review	Poetry	[248]
"Wildly Constant"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[249]
"Epithalamium NYC"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[250]
"Peril"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[251]
"Wildly Constant"		The Oleander Review	Poetry	[252]
"Good Dog"	2010	London Review of Books	Poetry	[253]
"Hang It Up"		Granta	Poetry	[254]
"Instructions for Folding"		Paperbag	Poetry	[255]
"Who Were You"		PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers	Poetry	[256]
"Prometheus Bound: An Excerpt from the Play by Aischylos"		The Wolf	Poetry	[257]
"The 'Ode to Man' from Sophocles' Antigone"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[258]
"Sonnet of Addressing Gertrude Stein", "Drop't Sonnet"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[259]
"Sonnet Isolate"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[260]
"[Wife of Brain]"		The Awl	Poetry	[261]
"[3 Fragments of Mimnermos]"		The Nation	Translation	[262]
"Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg"		The Nation	Poetry	[263]
"Letters: By Our Readers and Anne Carson"		The Nation	Letter	[264]
"Powerless Structures Fig. 11 (Sanne)"	2011	Poetry Review	Poetry	[265]
"Merce Sonnet", "Sonnet of the English-Made Cabinet with Drawers (in Prose)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[266]
"Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Beneviste's Problems in General Linguistics (Paris 1966)"		The Nation	Poetry	[267]
"O Dad"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[268]
"Ghost Q & A"		A Public Space	Poetry	[269]
"Candor"		Bomb	Poetry	[270]
"Glove"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[271]
"O Hap"		The Threepenny Review	Essay	[272]
"Powerless Structures Fig. 11 (Sanne)"	2012	The New Republic	Poetry	[273]
"No One Could Relax around Jezebel"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[274]
"We Point the Bone: An Essay on Threat"		Tin House	Essay	[275]
"An Interview with Anne Carson"		Brick: A Literary Journal	Interview	[276]
"A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways"		London Review of Books	Translation	[277]
"Red Excerpts"	2013	Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[278]
"Song of Your Pluck"		The American Reader	Poetry	[279]
"Two Poems from Red Doc>"		PEN Poetry Series	Poetry	[280]
"Eras of Yves Klein"		The New Republic	Poetry	[281]
"Bakxai 370-432"		Michigan Quarterly Review	Translation	[282]
"Maintenance"		Denver Quarterly	Poetry	[283]
"Krapp Interviews the Glass Technician"		Boston Review	Poetry	[284]
"Short Talk on Herbology"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[285]
"By Chance the Cycladic People"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[286]
"108 (Flotage)"		Washington Square Review	Poetry	[287]
"Short Talk on the Withness of the Body"		The New Republic	Poetry	[288]
"The Designated Mourner by Wally Shawn, Final Production, NYC, June 2013"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[289]
"Merry Christmas from Hegel"	2014	Gulf Coast	Poetry	[290]
"Onions"		The Threepenny Review	Poetry	[291]
"Ancient Words, Modern Words: A Conversation with Anne Carson"		World Literature Today	Interview	[292]
"Pronoun Envy"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[293]
"108 (Flotage)"		Fence	Poetry	[294]
"Krapp Hour"		Granta	Poetry	[295]
"The Albertine Workout"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[296]
"Krapp Hour (Act 2)"	2015	Granta	Poetry	[297]
"A Rehearsal for Life"		The Times Literary Supplement	Poetry	[298]
"Linnaeus Town"		Boston Review	Poetry	[299]
"Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage)"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[300]
"Dave's, Lake Michigan, Early June"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[301]
"Five Questions with Anne Carson"		Washington Square Review	Interview	[302]
"Uncle Harry: A Lyric Lecture with Chorus"		The White Review	Poetry	[303]
"Salon"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[304]
"Little Racket"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[305]
"We've Only Just Begun"	2016	Harper's Magazine	Short story	[306]
"1 = 1"		The New Yorker	Short story	[307]
"What to Say of the Entirety"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[308]
"Back the Way You Went"		The New Yorker	Short story	[309]
"Tom and TV"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[310]
"Laps for Fat Wal"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[311]
"Fate, Federal Court, Moon"	2017	London Review of Books	Poetry	[312]
"Saturday Night as an Adult"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[313]
"Stacks"		PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art	Poetry	[314]
"Interview with Anne Carson"		The White Review	Interview	[315]
"Eddy"		The Paris Review	Poetry	[316]
"Clive Song"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[317]
"God Among Men"		Harper's Magazine	Translation	[318]
"Short Talk on My Headache"	2018	London Review of Books	Poetry	[319]
"The Persians"		The Fabulist	Translation	[320]
"Flaubert Again"		The New Yorker	Short story	[321]
"Ardor (Aghast)"		Granta	Poetry	[322]
"War Song"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[323]
"Short Talk on Homer and John Ashbery"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[324]
"Nostos"	2019	Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[325]
"On Davey"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[326]
"Fox"		Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[327]
"The Keats Headaches"		The Times Literary Supplement	Poetry	[328]
"First Choral Ode from Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (A Translation of Euripides’ Helen)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[329]
"An Evening With Joseph Conrad"		The New Yorker	Flash fiction	[330]
"Ich bin doch kein Centrefold"		The Times Literary Supplement	Poetry	[331]
"Final Choral Ode from Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (A Translation of Euripides’ Helen)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[332]
"Visitors Rev. 4"		Granta	Poetry	[333]
"Troys and Girls"	2020	Harper's Magazine	Poetry	[334]
"1 x 30"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[335]
"Lark"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[336]
"Short Talk on Kafka on Hölderlin"		The New York Review of Books	Poetry	[337]
"The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly" Includes translations of Catullus 101		Literary Hub	Essay & Translation	[338]
"Oh What A Night (Alkibiades)"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[339]
"Sure, I Was Loved" For Dimitris Papaioannou	2021	The Times Literary Supplement	Poetry	[340]
"Life"		The New Yorker	Poetry	[341]
"Four Talks"	2022	London Review of Books	Poetry	[342]
"Keeping Quiet: A Brief Interview with Anne Carson"		The Collidescope	Interview	[343]
"On Snow"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[344]
"What I Like about You, Baby"		London Review of Books	Poetry	[345]
"Poor Houdini"	2024	The New Yorker	Short story	[346]

Anthologies and collections

List of contributions to anthologies and collections

Publication	Year	Contribution(s)	Ref.
The Best American Essays 1988 Guest edited by Annie Dillard	1988	"Kinds of Water"	[347]
Performance and Reality: Essays from Grand Street Edited by Ben Sonnenberg	1989	"Chez l'Oxymoron"	[348]
The Best American Poetry 1990 Guest edited by Jorie Graham	1990	"The Life of Towns"	[349]
The Best American Essays 1992 Guest edited by Susan Sontag	1992	"Short Talks"	[350]
The Journey Prize Anthology 6: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers Edited by Douglas Glover	1993	"Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother"	[351]
Paper Guitar: 27 Writers Celebrate 25 Years of Descant Magazine Edited by Karen Mulhallen	1995	"The Fall of Rome: A Traveller's Guide"	[352]
Wild Workshop: Three Poems Anne Carson, Kay Adshead, Bridget Meeds	1997	"The Glass Essay"	[353]
Writing Home: A PEN Canada Anthology Edited by Constance Rooke		"No Port Now"	[354]
The Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small Presses Edited by Bill Henderson		"Jaget"	[355]
The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 Guest edited by Harold Bloom	1998	"The Life of Towns"	[356]
The Best American Poetry 1998 Guest edited by John Hollander		"TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)"	[357]
The Forward Book of Poetry 1999 Edited by Geordie Greig		Selections from Glass and God	[358]
In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal Edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones	1999	"Very Narrow"	[359]
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English Edited by Rosemary Sullivan		Selections from "The Anthropology of Water"	[360]
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2001 Shortlist Edited by Esta Spalding	2001	Selections from Men in the Off Hours	[361]
The Best American Poetry 2001 Guest edited by Robert Hass		"Longing, a Documentary"	[362]
15 Canadian Poets X 3 Edited by Gary Geddes		"The Glass Essay"	[363]
The New Long Poem Anthology Edited by Sharon Thesen		"The Glass Essay"	[364]
The Matrix Interviews – Moosehead Anthology Issue 8 Edited by R. E. N. Allen and Angela Carr		Carson interview with Mary di Michele	[365]
The Best American Poetry 2002 Guest edited by Robert Creeley	2002	"Opposed Glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James"	[366]
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry Edited by Jahan Ramazani and Richard Ellman	2003	"The Glass Essay", "XI ('TV is presocial, like Man.')" from "TV Men", "Epitaph: Zion", "Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script", and "Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions"	[367]
The Next American Essay Edited by John D'Agata		"Kinds of Water"	[368]
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present Edited by David Lehman		"Short Talks" ("On Waterproofing", "On Orchids", "On Hedonism", "On Shelter")	[369]
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories Edited by Ben Marcus	2004	"Short Talks"	[370]
The Best American Poetry 2004 Guest edited by Lyn Hejinian		"Gnosticism"	[371]
The Norton Anthology of Poetry Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy	2005	"New Rule" and "Sumptuous Destitution" from Men in the Off Hours; "He She We They You…" from The Beauty of the Husband	[372]
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Edited by Stephen Greenblatt et al.	2006	"Hero" from "The Glass Essay"	[373]
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women Edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar	2007	Extract from "The Glass Essay, and "Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script"	[374]
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present Edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone		"The Glass Essay"	[375]
The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present Edited by Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, and Karen Van Dyck	2010	Selections from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho	[376]
Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology Edited by Todd Swift and Evan Jones		"Essay on What I Think About Most", "Father’s Old Blue Cardigan", "Funeral Marches", and "Night Confession"	[377]
Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers Edited by David Bartholomae and Tony Petrosky	2011	"Short Talks"	[378]
Fathers: A Literary Anthology Edited by André Gérard		"Father's Old Blue Cardigan"	[379]
The Best American Poetry 2012 Guest edited by Mark Doty	2012	"Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Beneviste's Problems in General Linguistics (Paris 1966)"	[380]
Greek Tragedies II Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore; third edition edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most	2013	"Iphigenia among the Taurians"	[381]
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides III Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore; third edition edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most		"Iphigenia among the Taurians"	[382]
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2014 Edited by Robert Bringhurst	2014	Selections from Red Doc>	[383]
The Best American Poetry 2014 Guest edited by Terrance Hayes		"A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways"	[384]
Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms Edited by Alan Ziegler		"Short Talk on Sleep Stones"	[385]
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing Edited by Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall	2015	"Wife of Brain" from Red Doc>	[386]
Modern Poets One: If I'm Scared We Can't Win Emily Berry, Anne Carson, Sophie Collins	2016	Selections from Plainwater, Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, The Beauty of the Husband, Decreation, Red Doc>, and Float	[387]
Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry Presented by the League of Canadian Poets		Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep) Lecture presented as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series (2004)	[388]
The White Review Anthology Edited by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard	2017	"Uncle Harry"	[389]
The Serving Library Annual 2017-2018 Edited by Francesca and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Angie Keefer et al.		"Nell"	[390]
The Norton Anthology of Poetry Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, and Mary Jo Salter	2018	"New Rule" and "Sumptuous Destitution" from Men in the Off Hours; "Lines" and "Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone" from Decreation	[391]
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson Edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod		"Merry Christmas from Hegel", and selections from Short Talks	[392]

Major sources

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• Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, ed. (2015). Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05253-0.
• Willard, Thomas (2011). "Anne Carson". In Canfield Reisman, Rosemary M. (ed.). Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish and Commonwealth Poets. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. pp. 225–228. ISBN 9781587657559. Retrieved 26 August 2020.