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How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Feb 18, 2024 • 53m

This week on Writers and Company from the Archives, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar and librettist, Anne Carson. The author of Autobiography of Red and its sequel Red Doc> is also the first and only two-time winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2011 about her book Nox — an elegy to her brother and a moving reflection on absence 

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