Comments on: Review: Antigonick, Sophokles (translated by Anne Carson)

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:12:56 +0000

Ahahahahahaha, I cackled very loudly when I read this comment. I am always mixing up Anne CARSON and Anne SEXTON — one of them I love, one of them is meh, and I cannot keep track of which is which. Anne Carson is the one with cool art books!

Have you started it yet? Are you enjoying it? I really want you to like it!

By: aartichapati

aartichapati — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:16:03 +0000

So first when I read the first sentence here, I was confusing ANNE Carson with RACHEL Carson and was like, “Really? Silent Spring is THAT POWERFUL?” But now I understand.

What a cool-sounding book!

Also, I am onto A Tale for the Time Being as audio and have a lot of driving coming up this week, so am excited to make it one of my last for the year!

By: jenclair

jenclair — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:04:37 +0000

Thanks! I don’t think I would ever have discovered this one without your review!

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:40:14 +0000

In reply to litlove. Okay, litlove, at your recommendation and only because I am gratified that you will read Anne Carson at my suggestion, I will give Anne Sexton's Transformations a try. She and I are in a weird little argument about her parenting, but I will try to forget about it. :p

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:39:28 +0000

In reply to Charlie. I usually oppose weirdness in capitalization. It's only okay here because it's all in caps and it's handwritten. Those two things together make it okay.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:37:58 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. In general I prefer type over handwriting in books too, of course, but I don't know. There's something about Carson's weird scrunched-up little capitals that creates such a cool tone for the book.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:37:04 +0000

In reply to Katie @ Words for Worms. I don't think we read Antigone in high school! I am pretty sure we stopped with Oedipus -- maybe our teachers felt there had already been sufficient snickering re: marrying his mother, without having to field questions about what exactly is Antigone's thing with her brother.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:35:36 +0000

In reply to rhapsodyinbooks. Hahahaha, fair enough.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:35:25 +0000

In reply to NWK (@MumsyNancy). Aw, sorry. I won't bring it up again.

By: litlove

litlove — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:13:31 +0000

It is entirely due to your advocacy that I have heard of Anne Carson and am intending to read her. I love the fact that she’s translated this into modern day speech. Have you read Anne Sexton’s Transformations? That’s where she retells fairy tales in a sort of vernacular poetry that’s a hoot and a dream. There’s something oddly enlivening about that determined shift into the modern.