Anne Carson: Red Doc>

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge, and her poetry novels Autobiography of Red and the follow-up, Red Doc>.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.3	Boots!
0:09.2	Where would we be without books?
0:13.1	Where would we be without good?
0:15.3	No, Timberd.
0:16.8	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.2	But where would we need without books?
0:23.7	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.0	Today, I'm very thrilled and excited to have us my guest, Anne Carson.
0:36.4	In 1998, when I was in the middle of one of those frenzies, calamities,
0:43.9	of wondering, what is poetry, nothing to worry about, it's a regular question.
0:48.1	I got a book called Autobiography of Red.
0:53.7	It was a novel and verse, and it told me what poetry could be.
1:00.9	It could contain appendixes, translations, fragments, interruptions, narrative, love.
1:09.6	It could make unrequited love sexier than fulfilled love. And it was a book
1:15.9	that not only I, but many, many readers have loved. Now her new book, Red Dock, has just been
1:25.9	published by Knopf.
1:28.1	What led you back to Red?
1:31.6	Basically, ennui.
1:35.2	I was grumping about the house one day, saying,
1:40.3	oh, I have nothing to work on.
1:42.3	I have no ideas.
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