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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Car...

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE“A profound love story” (The New York Times Book Review) that is both a novel and a poem, an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the presentNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTGeryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals...

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**This “exquisite meditation on love and loss” (Elle) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end.“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”—The New York Times**This c...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZENamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicis...

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURENEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A landmark collection that heralds “a truly great poet of the twenty-first century” (Time Out New York) as she hones her inimitable style to perfectionIn the poems and prose pieces of Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson is, by turns, Sappho, Catullus, and Catherine Deneuve, deftly deploying her signature mixture of opposites—...

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age.We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of gla...

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse.The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heart-breaking.The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, l...

** WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE **A personal and searching new work about handwriting, Parkinson's and boxing in Anne Carson's trademark idiosyncratic and visionary writing'This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me. My responsibility ...

WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe first collection of poems by the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature.Short Talks is a series of profound, elegiac prose poems that touch on subjects like travel, animals, philosophy, and art, delivered with Anne Carson’s now-signature—and singular—heart and wit.First published in 1992, the 2015 reissue features a foreword by poet Margaret Christakos, a “Short Talk on...

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAstonishingly beautiful poems and essays that stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions“Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed.”—The New York Review of BooksThe poetry and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2026Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy-iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, it had its world premiere at The Shed in New York City, starring Ben Whishaw and Ren...

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is C...