![]() ![]() ![]() This is important, Carson maintains, because adjectives “are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. Hercules (Herakles, in Carson’s precise transliteration from the Greek) is, naturally, still rough with people, but doesn’t break Geryon’s skull-instead, he breaks his heart.Ĭarson spends the first few sections of her short book describing the original poet, Stesichorus-an artist, she says, with a special genius for adjectives. In Carson’s telling, Geryon becomes a sensitive and artistic boy of our own time, marked out by his family and peers as being monstrously non-normal. The original poem, Geryoneis, followed the life of the monster Geryon leading up to his death at the hands of Hercules. It’s a blending of modern and archaic, mythic and mundane: part queer coming-of-age novel, part reimagined fragmentary poem by the Greek poet Stesichorus. ![]() Autobiography of Red, like most of what Anne Carson writes, is a shape-shifter. ![]()
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